monkeybutt
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Sorry to be so slow on updating you guys, but since I’ve moved into Kris’ hospital room we’re now both a little cut off from the outside world…
We’ve talked to the doctors a couple of more times. It’s funny that every time they say more or less the same things, but we look so hard for positive answers that the slightest change of tone is noticed, and ascribed a meaning far greater than it can possibly have been intended to have! Although they are not ruling out anything, they have clarified that further surgery would require “a miracle”. Although at the same time, they stress that those do happen… The goal is apparantly now to kill it in its place, rather than to remove it.
She slept much better last night, and is back on her feet. They gave her some blood and some oxygen gas last night, and this morning they removed her epidural. She’s able to stand up and walk without help now, although still just a few steps.
And – when there were finally no nurses in the room anymore – we were able to wash her hair and body, and change her panties. Oh, the joy of little things…
The new plan is to move her to the hospital in our home town, from which she might be released home some time in the week end. That seems very good.
The thing is though, that with all the comotion, neither her nor I have quite fathomed the meaning of the closing of the surgical option. We keep focusing on the positive, and I guess that’s not a bad thing, but there’s no getting away from that it is a big disappointment. We had focused so much of our hopes on this remote possibility. I wonder when that will really hit us…
Yes, it will keep me busy!!! Seriously though, they will be transfering her back up to her ward about now, and we’re heading over to the hospital. So they will be delivered!
Kris is still in post-op, but we were allowed in last night, and talked to her again on the phone this morning. She’s awake and well. The doctors are stressing that they are not giving up on her, and that radiation may be the next step. If that works well, even another attempt at surgery isn’t ruled out.
One bright point is that the surgeons say that in their opinion, the tumor has hardly grown any over the last year. (PET-scans have previously indicated significant growth, but perhaps this may have been only in tumor activity, rather than in size).
I just talked to the surgeons. It was as we feared. They weren’t able to do anything. She would not have survived what it would have taken. Keep her in your thoughts and prayers. She will need it now, more than ever.
