I am getting very excited about seeing my precious nieces and my brother who are coming in tomorrow!!! I have to get the "girls club" in my basement ready. My middle niece picked out the name of their bedroom. We already have some fun outings planned, my cousin Carrie is having us over for pizza on Saturday so the girls can play with their Kentucky cousins, and Matt's mom is having us over for brunch on Sunday so our siblings and nieces and nephew can meet. Seth seems really anxious to get with Matt's brothers to make plans for the wedding. Anyone who knows my brother knows how he likes to tease and play jokes on me, sorry Matt!!
So, as you can tell, I learned how to post photos on my blog.
I am excited to have some visitors today, my friend Lynn who I work with at Kosair Children's Hopsital, and Heather, who has been a sweet friend since our days at UK, learning how to be nurses are both stopping by! I am even going to venture out to the mall with the girls to eat at CPK and go look for scarves.....
I don't know that I will be able to post once the girls get to KY, but if I hear from Dr. Vitaz tomorrow, I will make time for that news!!
I know it is hard for me to understand all this stuff about brain tumors and I am in the operating room while they are being removed, so I can imagine the difficulty for most of my family and friends who aren't from a medical background. Some brain tumors, like mine before are not so dangerous because they are in a "safe location". I was able to have surgery to completely remove the tumor without chemo or radiation, but now it has grown back and is invading some more delicate tissue that can't be disrupted by surgery. Not all brain tumors are cancer, but depending on their location they may or may not have to be removed. Cancer varies in its aggressiveness, some grow very slow and never cause problems and some grow very fast and are very tough to treat. There is all kinds of research out there, I check it out from time to time, but I have decided to leave that to Dr. Vitaz and Dr. Spalding. I was told by a couple of my coworkers to try and stop micromanaging this and let the doctors do what they specialize in. I am trying, but it is HARD!!!
There is nothing wrong with an "informed" Pt. Gather all the info you can! That is what I tell my pts. Then review what you have gathered with your docs. That way you and the docs are the "team". Thanks for your "sharing" I look forward to your posts. I think you will need to make a field trip to Madisonville soon! So we can all see you again. I miss you! Oh, and now that you can post pictures, could you post some of your house. I would love to see it! Susan Fischels
ReplyDelete