Like many of you here, I was also shocked by the news of Emile's passing. Although I am glad that his suffering has ended. He was a very courageous man who fought and eventually accepted his faith. Like many of us, Emile brought tears to my eyes when reading his posts and seeing his beautiful family. I wish and pray that they will have the same strength to move on. How hard it might be. I think we can say that Emile will live on here.
Dear Miriam, I hope everything will turn out fine for you. Keep us in the loop with news. Let's hope for good ones!
I had to run some tests lately because of this Cushing syndrome. Today I got results. They were bad, as it looks like the remaining tumor in the brain produces too much cortison. I won't go into details now as it's a complicated matter and I don't have the patience right now to put it all into words.
The Cushing syndrome is caused by too much cortison. The symptoms are all in full effect by now and lead to life-threatening things in the end. To stop it from happening further, the remaining tumor would need to be taken out by another surgery. But it can't as it surrounds the main arteriae (word?) inside my brain. No chance, therefor the radiotherapy was done in March/April/May. It can't be taken away completely.
The doctor said to me "there isn't much to be done except surgery and taking it all out. " It can't be taken out, so.... wth
another test to be done this Friday, results expected by the end of next week - after that, today's doctor sends me back to the neurochirurg professor who already did two of the three surgeries before. He wanted to see me next March for a control but it seems I will meet him sooner than thought.
I survived three operations and a radiotherapy only to be knocked out by somehing caused by damn medicine pills? I'm between disbelief, rage and sadness. The last test now and then we'll see further. Tell me why I don't like Mondays.... I wanna shoot the whole day down (regards to The Cure)
Best wishes as always... 