The left side rebounds

Posted on November 21, 2006
Filed Under All, My Brain |

I was worried about the left side the other day: we seemed to be losing coordination a bit more rapidly than has been the case over the last few months. I discussed this with Dr. Larsen at UCSF: his guess, given the rapid nature of the event, was that the steroids I’d been given to guard against brain swelling had been ramped down a little too quickly, allowing the tumor, which has been beat up recently - biopsied and subject to radiation - to swell and put pressure on my motor area.

He recommended ‘pulsing’ the steroids - a quick ramp up, which we started yesterday. Turns out everybody responds to things like steroids differently: it takes a little work to get things just right. The good news is my left arm was better this morning. By afternoon, my wife said I was walking better. Some good news… treatment continues, both chemo and radiation…