Loose Strife

This morning Laura agreed to get her shunt checked. I called the neurosurgeon to ask him to grease the wheels on arrival. Instead, we talked at length on the phone during which he argued that a spinal tap wouldn’t be informative and that his office could do a different procedure (called a shunt series) after […]

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This week has been tough for Laura. She hasn’t had a real meal all week and is continuing to slowly lose weight. Headaches are more frequent. Her back and neck pain has worsened, but it’s not clear why; her scans showed no worsening in her bone mets, so maybe it’s from spending so much time […]

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