Biopsy Done, Great Echo

First, the good news. In preparation for Adrienne to have her biopsy under general anesthesia, the doctor insisted that she have an echo of her heart. We saw the results yesterday and her cardiac function is greatly improved since she started the Enalapril a few months ago. Her heart function is almost normal now. She has another medication called Coreg to start but we've been waiting until all the medical procedures are complete before introducing something new. Hopefully she can start next week. It is likely to drop her blood pressure quite a bit so the doctor suggested we have lots of canned soup on hand because it has tons of sodium, great for raising the blood pressure.

Adrienne's biopsy went fine yesterday though she's in quite a lot of pain right now. They took five samples of bone and marrow from the abnormal area, just above the hip joint in the pelvis. They used a CT scanner to make sure they were hitting the right area, which is actually fairly large (3cm x 3 cm x 5cm). Visually, the bone and marrow looked normal so we know there's no sarcoma (bone cancer) but that would have been very unlikely. It could be Hodgkin's Disease, though this is not a place where you normally see it. There are a number of other possibilities including simple necrosis from radiation. We should have the results on Tuesday.