Cleaning Up The System

After the MRI Dan and I splurged with pizza and wine with family, it was delicious! The next morning I recognized the difference in how my body felt. So, to clean up my system, I've been eating a vegetable, and fruit diet. Lots of green drinks :) and lots of supplements :) and lots of water.

My system gets pretty upset when I eat bad food or drink alcohol. It's weird. My body used to love wine and bread and cheese, but now it's giving me attitude. I keep trying from time to time, but the verdict is pretty clear. Good thing I never give up! :)

As for the comments on the blog, unless you include your email address, I can not respond privately. At least, I don't know how to...sorry about that!

I still haven't heard back from Dr Liau about the MRI results. I'm not sure if she will email me or if it will come via hard mail from UCLA. Either way I feel pretty content with how life is going. I'd be lying if I didn't say I wasn't freaking out about $$$ for treatments (I'm not sure if I'm saying that correctly - I'm no good with double negatives anymore), but since you have all helped so much with the various fundraisers, we should be able to get through April or May, and soon after that we should have the various fruit seasons...hopefully Dan and I can do the fruit sales in West Seattle and Friday Harbor, perhaps even Green Lake. I'm really excited at the prospect. It will be fun to have a weekend job for a bit :) busy hands are definitely happy hands.

MRI Pics

Here's a few pictures from Saturday's scan. You can see the tumor resection area in photos 2 & 3, the other two are just really cool, yet creepy images. Hope you find them as interesting as we do! There's a lot of inflammation from the surgery, that's clear, but there doesn't seem to be any obvious tumor tissue. From here I'm guessing the doctors use this as a baseline to compare each concurrent scan, watching for changes - nothing scary.

Dan are pretty happy with the images. It's amazing how inflamed my brain is, but it's only been three months, and after last surgery there was massive inflammation for almost a year. I'm taking a lot of anti-inflammatory supplements (for example boswellia), and focusing on eating lots of anti-inflammatory foods (veggies, fruits, omegas, lean protein, etc.).

I'm very excited to read the report from Dr Liau, I hope I'm not jumping the gun and that my confidence isn't in vain. There's no harm in being happy and positive. If I end up being wrong, oh well, there's always time for disappointment later :)