Brody had another CT scan last week and there is no sign of the tumor returning-- In addition, the enlarged lymph node that was near his tumor has further shrunk (this lymph node was worrying us). The CT did show that the lower half of Brody's left kidney was shrinking and appeared to be Necrotizing (dying)-- The doctors seem to think that this may be from his surgery last year that when removing the tumor they cut off some of the blood supply to the kidney, this was likely the source of the blood in Brody's Urine he had from February through April-- the timing of this (over a year later) doesn't seem to be right to us-- we are more of the opinion that it is from the radiation therapy-- we have an appointment with Brody's radiation oncologist (a follow up) in the next week or two and will see what he thinks.
In the mean time, Brody is scheduled for a Doppler Ultrasound of his kidney next week which will show the blood flow better and give them a better idea of what is going on with the kidney.... it is possible that if he does need more blood flow to the kidney he will probably have surgery to re-vascularize the kidney... we will obvioulsly know more in a few weeks.
We were scheduled to take a trip out west in late june/early but we had to postpone due to Geordi having a pretty severe and persistant Gastro Intestinal illness.... it got real severe just before we were scheduled to leave and Geordi did get hospitalized for 2 days, it did seem to go away for a few days.... we tried to reschedule 2 weeks later but it came back and we decided to postpone again mainly because the doctors were not sure what was going on-- it was possibly something serious and we didn't want to be stuck out west (out of our insurance network) with a very sick kid. It has now seemed to be gone-- the doctors have eliminated some of the more serious illnesses (thought it was possibly Crohn's disease). Fortunately Delta airlines allowed us to re-book the tickets so we have until next june to make the trip--- this summer is not looking good (with our work schedules) for rescheduling this vacation--- The boys all start school in late August-- we are possibly looking at traveling during the boys winter school break--but more likely we will wait until next June (when the boys finish school).
Geordi is going into 3rd grade, Jaden into 1st grade, and Brody is starting kindergarten.
Not really much else to report-- we did get a few new additions to our family-- We have a pair of Yorkshire Terrier puppies (they are about 10 weeks old now)-- very hyper alot of the time--but the boys are having a blast with them (other then cleaning up after them).
Thats about it.... will post more when we know more.
Bill
