Tuesday, December 29, 2009

MRI Looks Good

We were at the Huntsman Center this morning. I had another MRI and met with Dr. Jensen. We looked over the latest MRI and there isnt any sign of tumor left. It looks like the surgery was a success. It turns out that we just needed to give it more time before getting another MRI in October. I will be getting regular MRI's every 3 months for the next year and then every six months for the next year. Thank you all for your thoughts, prayers, generousity, help, and kind words. Looks like it all helped out. I owe you all so much. Thank you for everything. I'm a very lucky person to be surrounded by so many great people. We wish everyone the best and a Happy New Year!

Brenton

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Update

We hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving. We got to go to California to visit Trinis brother. Trinis parents gave us our Christmas present early. We had so much fun and enjoyed getting to be with family and really liked getting to all hang out like we use to when we all lived in Utah. It will be a trip we will always remember. Our kids got to see and go to the beach for the first time and we got to see seals. They thought the beach was pretty cool. Upon our visit I got information from Duke University on our second opinion on the pathology report they did. They agree with St Alphonsus hospital in Boise that it is a Grade 2 Astrocytoma. They don't feel its necessary to do any additional testing on it. This again could be good news that this suspicious new tumor is just inflammation from surgery done in September. Or it could mean is this suspicious tumor something new and different. Were hopeful its nothing but inflammation. I guess will know for sure on Dec.29th and will let you know shortly after. Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Brenton and Trini