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.
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Under the heading of strange, let me say I am currently tumor free but I have a similar issues with tingling that happens often to no longer freak me out as a "NEW TUMOR GROWING" thought, but is still annoying. Nobody seems to know what causes it, except that perhaps something from surgery disrupted some of the nerve ability. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteYour fall can't be anything too significant since your MRI was stable. I think that things will happen like that. As long as they are not frequent then should not worry about it. My husband gets dizzy once in awhile and I start to worry. Do you think you had a dizzy spell? I don't know how common lightheadedness is but getting radiation has to have some role to play.
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