D-Day has been and gone and there is good and bad news....

I am truly pissed off with this computer as it won't allow me to come into chat anymore and anyway I had a very quiet patch for a while there. But now, there is a flurry of activity...scans information and maybe going to the panel beaters to get my head fixed so here goes... Well I did the MRI which wasn't too bad on account of the sedation...That was nearly a month ago and I saw the oncologists and the haemotologists a few days later. I saw the haemotologist first and she said that I could stop taking the rat poison immediately...YAY!!! and gave me a sneak preview of the MRIs and report. Then I saw the onks later. The good news is that the bulk of Ollie on the right frontal lobe has shrunk a bit and seems to have stopped growing (sounds a bit like the economy) but the less good news is that the radiation has acted like a shot in the arm for Ollie's brother on the left frontal lobe, and it has grown a bit and there is quite a bit of swelling thereabouts. I have to think about what to do about that as I have absolutely refused to consider chemo. I have requested all the scan history with reports on a dvd and am waiting for that to arrive so I can go looking for other opinions maybe in Australia. I have started taking Chloripramine too. It is a tri-cyclic antidepressant which has shown a lot of promise in dealing with oligodendroglioma except that they only gave me 60 pills and I have to work it up from 20mg a day to 160 mg a day so I think I am going to have to tap the GP for lots more and in bigger denominations. Janet