Loose Strife

To mi familia grande, our phone is down after the recent storms and isn’t scheduled for repair until Wednesday some time. We don’t have cell phone service here and that satellite internet thingy has been pretty flaky during this last week. And all the storms don’t help. So… to reach us through Wednesday, your best hope is email. If it’s a real emergency, well, call the Ashfield police. You’ll make it into the patrol log!

Laura’s not feeling very well — not eating much and tired. She has a hard time eating because she’s afraid she’ll get sick — which she does about once a day. So mostly Ensure milkshakes. You’ve heard about this rigamaroll before. We’re both worried.
Laura had a brain MRI on Thursday that was negative. Her shunt was adjusted Friday morning, but it doesn’t seem to have reduced any symptoms. She sees her eye doctor on Monday morning and then her neurosurgeon on Tuesday. She’s going to drop some non-essential meds starting tomorrow. The best case scenario is that it’s a drug complication. Most logical cancer-based guess is that the CSF mets are gunking up her brain again causing headaches, vomiting, and vision loss. As we learned the last time around, changes in the meninges is difficult to observe in imagery, so the negative MRI is consistent with such a possibility. This would suck.