last day in Houston-part I

On our last day in Houston, Marie went for an early morning MRI of the spine. This actually took much longer than I expected. As it turned out, it was two MRI's. Since the spine is so long, they took an MRI of the upper half, then turned her around, and took one of the lower half. The only rush was that we had an afternoon flight back to Omaha. When the MRI was finished we needed to go to another building. MD Anderson has a good system of shuttles to get you from one place to another.
 
Off we went to see the radiation oncologist. Strangely, this time, there was no team. It was one doctor who met with us, as a courtesy. He was nice enough, and took the time to explain whole brain radiation. He felt that Omaha had quality radiation available, so there would be no reason to have it done in Houston. We left there thinking that radiation is something that we could pursue, if we wanted.

Surgery was a definite, radiation a maybe, and chemotherapy would be a last attempt. Okay so that's what we would do. Come back for surgery. But before coming back, we would ask about radiation at home.