Hello All,
Edgar called me on Thursday morning to say Natalia was not swallowing very well. He was very concerned about bringing her home on Friday for the weekend if she was having difficultly. When she awoke from her midmorning nap she still had food in her mouth and could not make her tongue move to swallow it. He got her in to see Dr Banerjee, who, ordered another CT scan. Natalia's ventricals were swollen. Her brain was not properly draining fluid. The decision was made to get her an MRI asap. The quickest way to do this was to admit her to the hospital. They got her into a room on the 6th floor by 9pm on Thursday night. They also increased her dose of steriod. Sophia and I took off 1st thing Friday morning to be here for her. Edgar didn't tell her we were coming so she was very surprised and happy when we walked in. We spent the day waiting to see if they could squeeze her in for the MRI. Dr Banerjee and Dr Haas-Kogen were both talking about inserting a shunt into her brain for drainage but the nuerological team wanted the MRI done. Finally at 4pm we were told that it wasn't going to happen. By then Natalia's increased dose of steriod was beginning to kick in. She was better able to swallow. We were then moved up to the 7th floor....to the same room she was in after her biopsy. The MRI is now scheduled for Monday 6/30/08. They are keeping her in the hospital for observation until then. Sophia and I will head home to Fresno on Sunday afternoon.
Talk about curve balls. She was 3 treatments away from being done with radiation and Thursday night was her last dose of chemo. Then this...She had been showing more symptoms during the past week and a half but her dose of steriod was down to only 2mg a day. We started all this at 12mg a day. She scared us all pretty bad.
