What a week!

First, I just want to take a moment and celebrate that I am finally done with my radiation treatments!!!!! I am cooked to a crisp and swollen, but I made it.

This week was long not on MY part, but Chris'. Tuesday he had a colonoscopy. No big deal, just a lot of sitting in a waiting room while he got the "good stuff" for his scope. Everything looked good, and he is happy he can eat all the popcorn and grapes he wants to eat.

Wednesday morning he had an eye appointment. He has been complaining about fuzzy vision for about a month, and it turns out that he has blindness to the bottom third of his left eye. The optometrist was concerned enough to send him to a neural opthomoligist the next day, which was yesterday. He ran many of the same tests as the first doctor, but ordered an MRI giving two options for the reason of the blindness: either early stage Multiple Sclerosis or an optical nerve stroke. We waited in the waiting room for almost an hour while waiting for the insurance company to schedule the MRI before we were sent home to wait. We finally got a phone call and the test was scheduled at 9:00PM. We finally got home from the MRI just before 11:00, and each of us had a restless night worrying about the prognosis. Chris got a call early this afternoon from the specialist and it was an optical nerve stroke. There is less than a five percent chance of recovering the lost vision, and Chris is crushed. He has a follow-up appointment in a month to check for progression or stabilization.

I have an appointment with my regular oncologist next Thursday to find out what it next... the fun life of a cancer patient.

OH! Angel had her baby: Alexis Ann last night. I don't have specifics...but she is healthy and beautiful.