MRI Results

Kori had her MRI a couple of weeks ago.    Kori is very allergic to the dye they use when they perform an MRI and she gets very sick, actually it caused her to go into anaphylactic shock when she was in Houston,  so she won't be having the dye ever again....per Dr. Tudor!!!   Unfortunately, that doesn't give the best MRI results.  Consequently, the results of her MRI were "inconclusive".  Dr. Richards (bless him) had the entire radiology team look at her scan and they all agreed on "inconclusive".  There is a teeny tiny change but so small that they can't really decide what it is, if anything.  Dr. Richards says maybe it could be from swelling caused by the chemo and/or the radiation.  Who knows??  

Kori saw Dr. Vroenen on Tuesday and she also looked at the MRI results.  We now have had at least 7 doctors look at her scan and they all agree on "inconclusive".   Today Kori met with Dr. Tudor and discussed her MRI results and guess what??....he agreed with the "inconclusive" results.  He also said that some areas look much better than the last scan.  There appears to be some very small change but he also agreed that it could be effects of the treatments or maybe edema.   He also mentioned that the most significant thing to him is that she feels good and isn't having any symptoms.  He told her she looked good too.  She will have another MRI (with NO dye) in two months but for now we're going with NO CHANGE and that's a very good result.

Last night she began her second dose of maintenance chemo for 5 nights, that will end Sunday night and then she have 23 days off.   We hope that she will do as well with this dose as she did the last time.