Aah, who doesn't love some alliteration. I haven't posted for a couple of weeks for no real reason. I just haven't had too much to say. Things here are going well. I've been busy just doing Mum stuff with the kids. We are filling up our days with playdough, painting, playing with blocks, baking. Just stuff.
I continue to feel better every week. I am now off the serc completely, and am still on half a tablet of the dex. I still get very tired, however this week I've had a few days where I nearly didn't need a nap. Nearly. Or I've gone and lay down, but not actually slept. However I know the rest is good. Symptom wise I am still getting occassional headaches, and a few dizzy spells. I'm nauseaus every morning which is annoying. But generally I am feeling not too bad. I do feel frustrated with myself that at times I know my brain isn't working properly, however to everyone else I must just look normal. I'm sure that this will pass. I hope.
This week though began my magnificent month of medical mayhem. I have a medical/doctors appointment every Thursday for the rest of this month. I had my follow up MRI on Thursday this week. It was fine, I guess I'm getting used to them now. Even the cannula, which I have a phobia about, was painless (I actually didn't know I had it in until I looked down). Unfortunately, they sent the scans to my specialist so I don't kow the results just yet. I'm not really expecting anything too drastic, just obviously hoping that the swelling has gone down.
The next day I had an appointment with my GP to discuss a few things. I alluded in my last post that there are a few things I'm worried/paranoid about. One of them is whether blobby is a hormone receptive tumour or not. My neuro seems to think that it could be, although obviously we wouldn't know without a biopsy. Given that, I'm worried about the risk of other things like breast cancer (I've read conflicting studies about the link between meningiomas and breast cancer. Some studies find no link, others say there is a 40% increased chance). Several years ago I had some lumps in my breast checked out, and was told that they were glandular tissue. Well they are still there, and now I am not happy to just leave it at that. My GP and my neuro agree. So this week I'm have a mammogram/ultrasound. And then in a few weeks I will go and see a breast surgeon to discuss the results and options. I'm not really worried about it in that I don't think they could be cancerous. However I don't want to leave it and for it to become something in a few years time.
In between those appointments is a follow up visit with my GP and then my neuro appointment. So a busy month! I feel tired just thinking about it. Maybe I need to work on some more alliteration.
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