June 13, 2007

  • EVIE UPDATE

    Hi all!  Amy here.  I just got a text message on my cell phone from Evie.  I'm not sure if everyone who follows her blog knows that she had to be admitted to the hospital yesterday. 

    Her chemo last week has left her in dire pain in her stomach.  They added a new, different drug to the cocktail of treatment.  Usually her day after chemo is her "good day" and then the day following that is "bad."  Well, last week, her "good day" turned into a nightmare of pain.  She was seriously dreading her "bad day" if her good day was that bad.  Unfortunately, it got significantly and progressively worse and she had to be admitted to the hospital yesterday for this pain.

    They did a number of tests concluding with a CT scan last night to see if they could determine the source of the pain.  From talking to her mom, morphine wasn't even touching her pain. 

    The results of the CT scan this morning were not favorable.  Unfortunately the discovered that despite the treatment, the tumor is growing.  Ev's message specifically said she couldn't talk without crying so I'm trying really hard to respect that and not call.  When I do get further information, I will come back and post.  She said if they could bring her pain under control, she would get to go home tonight. 

    Please step up your prayers.  Evie's fighting such a battle and right now, she's just not winning this one.  Please, please pray with me for her! 

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    ADDITIONAL UPDATE!!!!!!

    I just had a call from Evie's mom.  After talking to her SIL who is at the hospital with Evie, she said she (the aunt) didn't feel like Evie would be up to going home tonight because while the pain in better now, it's still not completely managed so she didn't know whether Ev would go home tonight or not at this point.

    There is some HOPE for some good news to come.  The tumor has grown.  This is the residual tumor left from what they took out in November.  It was 6cm then and is 10 cm now.  However, Evie had a CT scan in February and they're not sure what the size was THEN.  So if the tumor had grown between November and February, say from 6cm to 12 cm, then although it's 10cm NOW, it would show them that the treatment IS working and is shrinking it.  But until they have those results in hand, they won't fully know.  The plan right now is for 2 more rounds of chemo 3 weeks apart.  Her primary oncologist is consulting with the radiation oncologist to determine if another round of radiation could have any better results. 

     

     

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