Another encouraging MRI

(MRI cross-section of Meg's head, 6/8/10)

Meg had another MRI on Tuesday. We learnt the results during a visit with the physician's assistant today. The door burst open and Dr. Henson, Meg's neuro-oncologist, popped his smiling head in to tell us that the MRI looked just great. Meg's next MRI will be in August, and will probably be a functional MRI to locate the speech centers in her brain, just in case more surgery is needed in the future.

Meg continues to do well, but has been suffering from a cold for the last week (souvenir of our trip?) and has just about lost her voice. The physician's assistant was not concerned, but did postpone the next round of chemotherapy for a couple of days, to let Meg recover a bit. Now that Elspeth's here Meg doesn't seem to fall asleep so early in the evening as she did when it was just the two of us. I won't take it personally.

Elspeth is enjoying her science work with fish at the Hutchinson Center, and will have her first shift at the Capitol Hill Trader Joe's on Thursday.  Her cat seems to be enjoying his time in our basement, and doesn't seem at all fazed by frequent hissy fits from our cat.

We're awaiting quite a series of visitors: two friends of Elspeth's (and her girlfriend for the July 4th weekend), Nick and Dan for a wedding, Meg's sister and daughter and (we hope) Meg's parents and the sister again and other daughter. And a camping trip with a graduate school buddy of Andrew's. Then maybe time for a gentle beach backpacking trip?