My Story

... this is my version.

Things for me went CRAZY to say the least. I got sick while I was in
Guatemala- thought it was a head cold- flu - but thank god for my
friend Emma and Liza!!! Things are good now.. made it back home with my Dad
flying to Guate to come get me. It was weird because I thought I was
sick, I was tired and had a sore throat. Went to one doctor (joke) and
told him what I thought..I think he gave me some pills...don't know
what they were, dont remember (later found out they were anti-anxiety pills because he thought I was just having a bad day :) ). Think I took them (jahaha??) and it did
nothing. So my friend Emma told me she was going to take to me to
another doc that her boyfriend's family knows and use. Realiable. So I
went there, had an MRI- they found soemthing on my brain and that is
why I went home. They didnt know in Guate and why would I stay there
anyway?

This is where things get blury for me.. but what I have been told by
my folks (thank God for them) ...

Went to the ER in AL ( AL-Alabama -where they live) and found out that I have
brain cancer ... no, big deal. jaja Had a biospy.... to figure if that
was what it was because we were hoping it was infetion - nobody knew- I was
a medical mystery. The doctors kept saying "infection, infection" so that is why we were hopeful about that.

My symptoms were tired (lazy-jajaja), face
numbiness, head aches, and apparently I couldn't remember (I don't know--I literally
don't rem). But at the same time I was having problems with my
parathyoid and throid (family history) soo it was very confusing.. because
that can cause confusion and memory loss. Anyway went to ER in Montgomery, sent me
to another hospital in Birmingham, AL (the best of the best) and that
is where I have been/was. I spent 2 weeks in the hopital - I had 2 surgeries ...

My first was the biospy and 2nd was the parathyoid - it was removed. 3 of them and a node off of my thyroid...

Still recovering from both (I think) - but able to do a lot now. Walking a lot
more, just slow...I have side effects of both surgeries still, like
numbiness in my face, arms and feet...but no pain. I hope that it will
go away soon. But who knows..IT might be all the medicine I am taking..

6 weeks of radiation, every day (during the week) at 7am for 10 minutes. Then 4 weeks off - with no radiation and no chemo pills. The radiation is "easy" - I go into the office, lay down on a table and they put a mask on me and I get radiation for 10 minutes. It is (was) the best 10 minutes because I got to relax, no one talking to me and I just lay there.
I take my chemo pills at night so I don't get sick. Once I am done with the 4 weeks "off," I have a routine visit then a MRI in July. After that I have a routine MRI every 2 months to determine if the chemo pills are working. (pills- only take 5 days out of a month - like a birth contol pill) If it doesn't work then we have to decide what is the best course of action to take. I really don't know what this means because we are not there yet and everyone thinks this is going to work.
There is still a lot up in the air until July/Sept

I think that is the whole story..