18 mo Post-treatment MRI OK, First fall

Good news first, the last MRI and visit to the oncologist went very well. The doctor originally said that would be on the MRI-visit-every-3-months schedule for 5 years. At 18 months this visit, he said that he had reviewed all the MRI's since surgery, and because of the gross lack of tumor progress, he moved the MRI/appointment frequency from every 3 months up to every 6. That's a huge vote of confidence from a doctor that sees these types of cases every day.

So that was about a month ago. That doctor at Rush University was never really interested in addressing my ongoing problems, so I promised myself that I would contact a local neurologist to help me. Well, now I have some extra motivation to initiate that.

This morning, after my usual morning routine, I headed out to the car to go to work. As I stepped into the garage, my left leg all the sudden decided it wanted to take a nap. It collapsed underneath me like it was not even there. My head broke the fall by bouncing off my wife's van, then I hit the concrete 3 steps down. Ouch. This weakness in my leg is common from a sitting position. It is pretty frequent that when I stand from sitting, I use my arms a brace myself to make sure lefty is gonna do his job. Once I start walking I would not have any problems. This was the first time lefty gave out while I was walking. Bad news it was on stairs.