Another hiccup....don't tell me you're surprised?

Radiation was canceled again today, so Meghan and I had a nice relaxing day planned. We met with Gordon, the Orthotist, who took a cast of Meghan's foot so that he can create a custom orthodic brace to retrain her leg muscles again. He was from Glasgow in Scotland. Conversation came easily as we found heritage in common:I was born in Scotland. He told me to tell all my English relatives who read the blog, "You've probably never seen a Scot who actually works after lunch!"

Our physical therapist loves to create games where Meghan has to stand on this foam square--as it is impossible to keep stable on it. Here Meghan had to toss the turtles into a pond by kicking her feet--her aim was great but her stability was rocky. But we are moving closer to our goal of walking without the cane.

It was during PT that I noticed Meghan's incision was oozing. I called neurosurgery, and Dr Butler, our surgeon, wanted to see her immediately. He took one look at the site and went silent. He then informed me that it was not healing properly and he wanted to schedule an emergency operation tomorrow morning to reopen the wound, cut away the scar tissue, irrigate the infection and re-stitch her up again. Because of the bacterial meningitis, he didn't want to take any risks. He believes that the steroids are preventing the wound from healing properly. This will be the 4th time that this particular site has been re-opened--making healing more difficult.

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So once more, we are revising our Prayer Request: Please remove the infection from the site, and allow the wound to heal successfully.
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Am I the only one who has forgotten that we are here to fight a brain tumor? It seems as if we are fighting everything but the tumor! Yet all of these issues are indirectly because of the tumor so Meghan reminds me, "Tumor's are evil!" ..... Amen Meghan Amen.