inquiring minds

The tumor board met Wednesday morning to talk about me:  Good news is no one thinks its a tumor, bad news is they don't know what it is (surprise!) but really seem to be leaning towards vascular. There are a couple different types of vascular lesions  it could be - some are more likely to re-bleed than others but short of brain surgery there's not really anything to do and the risks of that(in this location especially) are as high or higher than a re-bleed so no brain surgery (I'm ok with that).So we wait for next MRI and see whats happening at the end of May.

So far so good coming off the steroids.  The main thing I've noticed is I'm more tired again.  I had mentioned previously  that I felt my endurance had greatly improved - along with that I was awake most mornings at 4 am planning menus and grocery lists, writing emails, thinking up exam questions.  I really got a lot of good work done!  But I think now that was all a side effect of the steroids.  I'm back to sleeping through the nights like a rock and usually one nap a day.  That is probably better for my brain.  The only other thing that might be a bit worse is the numbness in my face - but I''m having trouble deciding if it is or not - if so it's subtle because it's nothing like in the beginning when my entire jaw and teeth ached/hurt.   otherwise I still feel pretty good.

This was finals week at SEU and this morning is graduation - the first one I've missed. It's bittersweet- graduation is long...they do Dec/May and Aug graduates, grad and undergrad all at the same time; I heard just over1000 students will cross the stage  this morning. But I do really enjoy seeing our students cross that stage - science is always last - save the best! And its fun to remember them as freshmen/sophomores and see just how far they've come.  I have 4 research students graduating today and I am SO proud of them!  Congrats Katie, Ivan, Matt and Taylor!

fly lab grads 2013

Now a couple weeks to relax before I start summer research with students in June.  ahhhh summer!