New Regimen

I apologize for the delay in posting this week. I originally wanted to wait to fill you all in on our appointment with the Herbalist this past Tuesday. The problem is that he gave us some pretty extensive stuff to incorporate into our daily routine leaving little time for weekday evening blogging. So rather than leaving you completely in the dark all week, I thought I would give you all the quick scoop to tide you over until Sunday night.

Kristine's symptoms continue to cause more concern. Her cough is more frequent than in previous weeks and she has started to cough up small amounts of blood again. Her right shoulder and right side of her neck is in pain as the lymph nodes swell with tumor growth -- the lump on her shoulder sticking out about an inch high and measuring about 2 inches wide. She has developed painful and acute headaches on the right side of her head that continue on and off throughout the day. We do not have the scan results back from the CT scan of her neck and shoulder yet. They will provide us with a better picture of how extensive the disease has spread into her lymph nodes. We are planning to meet with Dr. Staddon to discuss this new headache development and the potential options we have as Kristine's breath becomes more and more restricted.

Our trip to the Herbalist was encouraging. Although, as I mentioned the regimen he has Kristine on is quite extensive. It will likely take us a few days to fully work into our daily routine. I will give more detail this Sunday, but let's just say I feel a little like a wizard in training at Hogwart's mixing potions made of rare herbs and roots. Though I frankly don't care if it's made out of toad's wart if it works.

Thanks for your patience.