A Broken Arm...

Okay, so Ashley is doing well. There really aren't any changes with the new medication yet. She still needs the Tylenol for eye pain episodes. Her follow-up is this Friday at 2:00 pm. I've noticed she has started complaining about neck pain a little more often lately so something to bring up on Friday when we see the oncologist again. The eye pain is still primarily in the right eye, but she has complained about the left more frequently, too. Her next MRI is planned for mid-July, unless they decide there is need to do it sooner than the 3-month intervals we've currently been doing. Her need for the Tylenol has still averaged the 4-6 hour intervals,.. no real changes in anything as of yet.

Courtney had her appointment with the dermatologist last week, and he says it is a minor skin thing, and definitely NOT Scleroderma, or anything else serious so that is a big relief. He gave us medication for it though, and she has a follow-up appointment next week.

We hope that you all had a nice Memorial Weekend. Our's was wet & soggy, but we had a lot of fun, and it was great to breathe in all that fresh mountain air. We look so forward to those camping trips. We just took our tent this time, and when we got up there, we realized we were short a pole so we found a tree limb and broke out the duct tape and did it 'redneck style'.

Brittney rolled her quad on the hillside, and broke her arm Saturday. She's doing well though. The doctor in the ER said that the break is too high so casting it wouldn't do any good. They splint it with a sling and used a wide ace bandage to immobilize it to her body, and two types of pain meds. And, of course, it was her right arm & she is right handed... isn't that just the way? We were able to continue camping, and still ended up having a nice weekend. Brittney is getting along pretty well with one arm, but she does get frustrated easily about all the things that she can't do now. I'm waiting to hear back from our doctor on which orthopedic surgeon she wants her to see, and then we'll get an appointment set up for this week. *sigh* Does it ever end?