A Day at Stanford and Mailing List Update/Information

Robin and I spent the day at Stanford Hospital yesterday for the CyberKnife consult. The Neuro folks had billed this as a treatment appointment, but evidently SUH had other plans... As is par for a teaching hospital we had to wade through a group of Fellows and R3's before we saw the physician of record for the consultation. The treatment plan that we agreed to is for a return visit for creation of the face mask (assists in beam targeting) followed by final/targeting imaging by CT and MRI. Then we would go home for a day and return on day three for the actual therapy. The final number of treatment visits is yet to be determined, but it will probably not be more that three visits.

I heard from RWC late last Friday about the full spine MRI results: the only lesion noted is at L1, and it is larger than on the first MRI. There is some extension now into the surrounding soft tissue, and RWC thinks that traditional radiation might be beneficial--I am not convinced of this. I would prefer the CyberKnife team look at the scans and determine if they can address the lesion; so I have pushed the RWC team to refer the lesion to SUH, rather than telling me that they (RWC) think it is too large for the CyberKnife.

On other fronts, I have received a few mailing list requests from people who are already enrolled in the Google Group. Note: The mailing list and the Google Group are one and the same. I am only using the group for the mailing list features which offer more flexibility than the Blogger web site. Long story short, if you are receiving blog post updates then you are on the list and do not need to resubmit your name. If you are not recieving update emails and are on the mailing list then you should just leave a comment in the blog and I will try to figure out what is happening.

Well, time to get moving and accomplish things. Today is our Wedding Anniversary and I need to start acting like it!

Take care and be well.