No improvement on the eyesight and of course she has to deal with the pain from the surgery. Thursday Kim had an appt. with Dr. Gambos, an eye surgeon; after a 3 hr. appt. of pictures, ultra-sounds, angiogram and vision checked it showed enlargement of the optic nerve tumor, a moderate sized eye lesion; he feels her vision loss is coming from the macular area of which she had surgery in May. He's referring her to a local eye surgeon as he is more familiar with optic nerve tumors and wants her to get another opinion as whether she should proceed or not with treatment on the eye. Dr. Gambos feels that any sugery to the eye will worsen the vision rather than help with improvement. He recommends her to getting evaluated for another set of prescription glasses to see if that helps with the blurriness. He also feels alot of the blurriness is coming from the pain meds. she's on now.
Jeff left Thursday afternoon and Kim was so thrilled he was there and being so supportive and helpful to her. He helped with everything from feeding to repositioning to being her own personal physical therapist. Jeff is awaiting an appt. with interventional radiology to have a biopsy and possible laprascopic surgery to remove 2 large masses located behind his pancreas. Depending on what type of tumor it is, that will determine what type of chemo he will get. He was a very impressed with MD Anderson and now wants to continue all his treatments there.
She had an appt. with a dermotolgist for her easily bruised skin and he said it would be best to try 2 prescription lotions starting in one place on her arm to see if it works.
Basically, she got out of the hospital yesterday late afternoon. She is here til Tues. when we take her to see another eye dr. in the a.m. and get the sutures out at 1-1:30. On Tues. she will have labs drawn for a hemotology consult as precaution prior to starting the sutent chemo trial. Then she'll go get her hair washed one more time, and back here. Wed. she flies back to Chicago at 5:30pm and Steve will pick her up. Thanksgiving she'll stay home with her family as the drive to Debbie's is too long for her with bumps in the roads, etc. She'll miss seeing everyone but
realizes it would be too much for her.
The following photos were taken during the end of her stay at MD Anderson...
Kim with her brother, Jeff
Kim and Sheila
Kim getting a workout and enjoying some fresh air
Kim and Jeff with their Houston family
1 comment:
Kim, you look beautiful. Praise God on your recovery. No doubt lots of work still ahead, but we're looking at the silver lining here!
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