out patient

As an out patient we would take Marie back and forth to the rehab center. Being on this new anti seizure medication certainly helped. But she never changed the way she felt about speech therapy, or the neuro physcologist. We did see the vascular surgeon, and he did additional testing. He never did find out what was causing the swelling. The swollen hand went back to normal size after another two weeks. No explanation, just another anomaly.

Brain tumors are rare. The possible affects on the brain must be vast. They are sometimes unexplained. Then, they seemingly fix themselves like the bowel movement, the 4 day sleep, and the swollen hand. Sometimes they don't fix themselves like the memory loss or the personality change. Sometimes you just forget that you are a smoker, and never have another cigarette again.

After two months of rehabilitation, Marie was finally all done. Now all she had to do was have periodic MRI's. The medicals wanted to make sure there was no recurrence.