Liz Ellis (on left) brought her new love, Brenda Grant, to meet us. Liz was a long-time member of our neighborhood association, and was very active in a whole slew of activities, until she moved away. Brenda was a software geek who upped and retrained as an MD, and is now serving the community of Okanogan in eastern Washington. We happily picked her brains about assorted medical puzzles (such as why neurologists keep asking you who the president is) and signed her up to be a resource for when we go camping in her part of the state next Summer.
Monday: Andrew went off to work, but drove home to give Meg a ride to the radiologist's office for a baseline MRI for the clinical study she may be part of. The rain abated and Meg enjoyed the walk home. She's hoping to go to her radiation treatments by bus or on foot.
On Tuesday we expect to spend most of the day at assorted medical appointments. Interviews, blood draws, form signing, EKG for the clinical trial; a radiation simulation for the radiation treatment. At the end of the afternoon we're off to the surgeon's office to grill her about various questions that have come up after meeting with the neuro-oncologists. Thanks to the doctors, and to several colleagues who've been investigating for us, we will then be as educated about the clinical treatment options as we're ever liable to be. We will then have to actually decide upon which treatment is best for Meg: if we mull it over till after midnight, it'll be the perfect day to have an epiphany.
These important choices are sometimes agonizingly tough to make. Hope for your sake it does come to you as clearly as an epiphany.
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