Lazy Sunday

Cassandra is doing pretty good lately. We have been lowering her pain meds slowly over the past few days and she is having less sudden spikes of pain. We always keep liquid morphine on hand to be able to deliver very fast pain relief if she ever gets one of these spikes and we have used very little lately.

Cassandra spends most of her days in our bedroom resting because her legs are still not 100%. I wouldn't even say they are 30%. She at times lacks strength to hold herself up and her balance is not great. She has had a couple of falls. Sometimes it is hard for her to request help when we are in the other room because she still thinks she can do everything she wants. So this has, at times, contributed to her falling.

The one big change lately is that Cassandra is now experiencing seizures fairly regularly. In the past 24 hours she has had two that we know of and one that I suspect happened in the middle of the night. We talked with our Oncologist about this in our last visit and he told us anytime there is changes in the brain there is always a chance for a seizure. What we don't know is what type of change is happening in her brain. It could be the cancer is progressing or it could be in retreat. I think that the cancer is in retreat because she continues to do better overall especially in regards to pain.

We see our Oncologist on Tuesday for a checkup and labs to make sure everything is going smoothly. On Tuesday it will have been one week since we got the Keytruda and over the next few weeks we can start to hopefully see more improvement.

Cassandra is blown away by all of your comments. We read all of them to her and at times she tears up from all the support. We really appreciate everything. She continues to be positive about the treatment and knows she still has a long road ahead of her.

Thank you all again
Eric