Once again, this month we drove directly from Wimberley to Houston after doing the June 1 Wimberley Market Day. After taking a day off to play in Houston on Monday, we started early Tuesday morning with appointments at MDAnderson. Jeff drove up from Corpus Christi to accompany us to the doctors’ appointments...you may recall that he was with us when we started this journey 2 1/2 years ago and he likes to stay “in the loop.”
Our visit with the neurologist was positive in that Rusty’s seizures seem to be under control with the new medication regime. A brief neuro-psychiatric test showed some small cognitive deficits consistent with where the tumors were removed. For the first time we saw MRI images of the tumors that were removed with resection surgery and gamma knife radiation...we were blown away by how large the largest tumor was, and by the competence of the medical team that resected it, as well as the competence of the team that performed the gamma knife procedure on the smaller tumor. We refer to the area where the tumors were as “Rusty’s Black Hole.”
Dr. Amaria and the melanoma team are happy with Rusty’s physical condition and status, and encourage him to be be active, travel and pursue his interests. Next “staging scans” will be in August. The routine immunotherapy infusion takes about 1 1/2 hours with the prep, actual infusion and post infusion care. Uneventful, as usual, thank God.
Dinner at D’Amicos to celebrate a positive visit. Weather very rainy with flooding, so we held over in Houston today and hope to get home tomorrow. Keep those prayers and positive vibes coming!
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