MRI results

Rick had his MRI this morning at Children’s. As we had suspected, the results were not good. The tumor is back already, just six weeks after surgery. It’s bad.

Surgery and radiation are not options; all we have left is to go for the chemo in spite of his low platelets, which were at just 70K this morning. We will be starting next week, he’ll get a PET scan and we will immediately start the chemo. Risk of hemorrhage is high, especially since he had brain surgery and has low blood counts, but it’s the best shot we have of slowing this thing up. Better to give it everything we can, than wish we did later.

We are going to Vermont for the weekend to visit my sister and her family. Likely the last trip we’ll make up there, but who really knows. He’s feeling pretty good, just a few headaches and some nausea, so I’ll pick him up at school the end of the day and we’ll be there for dinner. He loves it there; it’s one of his favorite places.