Monday, May 18, 2009

pet scan update

The results from last weeks PET scan were good. No change. Which means no growth, and no shrinkage. I had more chemotherapy today. The doctor removed one of the chemotherapy drugs from my treatments, as he thought it might be the cause of my headaches. He said it could take 6-8 weeks to know for sure if this will work. That would be awesome if I could get rid of these headaches. My left ear is still ringing and I can't hear much out of it. We saw the ENT last week and he gave me a hearing test, which I failed, and some antibiotic ear drops for starters. I have been on the antibiotics for about a week and no progress. We have a follow up visit with the ENT this week to check on results of the antibiotics and I suppose talk about what to try next. The hearing loss has given me the opportunity to selectively hear what I want to hear. "What was that? I can't hear you, you want me what?...." Monica caught on to that trick really quick, but it doesn't stop me from trying:) This one actually worries me, if it's permanent and not repairable via surgery, hearing aide, or some other way it's going to suck. It's annoying at the least not being able to hear conversations, and asking people to repeat themselves. Take care. -Eric

3 comments:

Meridee said...

Do you want to borrow my signing videos? :)

Todd and Julie said...

I am glad to hear there was no growth. Too bad it takes so long just to see if the medicine that you were taking were causing those headaches. Hopefully they go away soon. And for the hearing loss I hope they can fix that soon. I can only imagine how annoying that can be. As always, we are thinking of you! :)

Jeff and Brittney said...

Loss of some hearing may prove to be nice in some occasions - I wish this for me when our neighbor gets going with her loud foul language.

I'm so happy nothing is growing and I hope the med change does help with your headaches. Does the Chemo still zap your energy each time?

We love you very much!
Love, Britt