Friday, June 19, 2009

Pain and scans

Adrienne is having some new pain in her back so she's going to have scans next week. We aren't sure what we'll do if the pain is caused by disease but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. She's taking pain meds, although the pain isn't as severe as it was last December and hopefully it won't escalate that much. We can't feel anything in the area that's hurting and she doesn't feel the fullness from tumor that she felt before so we're hopeful that this is something small and isolated.

Adrienne mentioned to me that she heard from the pulmonologist at City of Hope recently. It turns out that her bronchial lavage was positive for adenovirus. For most people, adenovirus is a self-limiting infection but it can be quite serious in immunocompromised people. She doesn't have any pneumonia symptoms so no treatment is needed now but the infectious disease doctor and the pulmonologist said that this wouldn't account for the changes on Adrienne's PET scan last April. Oh well.

Once again, we wait.

4 comments:

Veronica said...

Ugh - waiting sucks.

Hoping for resolution to Adrienne's back pain - think of you guys every day...........Vx

laulausmamma said...

I hate waiting! Hope the back pain doesn't escalate. Darn..there's always something : ( ((HUGS))

Karen said...

I hope the back pain has resolved--enough is enough already.

Hope the rest and relaxation part of the summer is still working out . . .

Karen, Clare's mom

katmm said...

Hi there Alison,

Hoping that the back pain is subsided or subsiding... and that it's something manageable.

Yes, it's always something.

Thinking of you,
K