Tumors

If you are not getting my hilarious Serial references, you need to get out from under a rock.

This is everything from last night. I will write another blog from today, but we are pretending that this is from last night.

So yesterday, I got the first call that the MRI had come through and it was showing a mass in her brain. They were uncertain, but they did have to tell me that because of the inconsistencies, she was at a "higher" risk for the spinal tap. I asked what the options were, and she said the spinal tap or a biopsy, which would mean brain surgery. Easy choice, she got the spinal tap, which would take at least 24 hours for results.

A second call came that she was awake from anethesia and the spinal tap was done. Upon further investigation, her best guess was a tumor. It looked like a mass that had a lot of blood around it. That left me 4 options.

1. High cost with most risk: brain surgery to remove the tumor with radiation afterward, knowing that they could not remove the whole tumor, and she would be at A&M for some time.

2. Medium-high cost with medium-high risk: radiation for 5-20 days.

(The radiation is once a day, and she would be put under every day to do this, with a risk every time she was put under)

3. Medical management: take her home to put her on medications to control the bleed and bring the brain swelling down. 

4. Put her down.

I couldn't not give her the chance. It was a quick conversation that we would go get her and bring her home and work out where to go from there. Just want her to be comfortable and I know being away from home and with unfamiliar people, she wouldn't be. So we headed to Collehe Station...