MRI Update

Jude’s MRI from last Friday turned out good. There is some brightness (which means either tumor or inflammation), but less than before so they think it is just inflammation that will go away. Jude did great. He pretty much took his own temperature and blood pressure and was so cooperative that they suggested he be a star of a movie to teach the other kids how to get prepped for an MRI. Then he gassed himself to sleep and they started his IV after he was sleeping, which worked great. But, after waking up from the MRI, he screamed bloody murder when he saw the IV poked into his arm and he went to work taking it out. He was not happy about the sticky bandaging that made it painful to remove. After getting out of there, we swung by our house to pick up the rest of our crew (Andy and the little boys who were sleeping in) and then headed to meet Jude’s oncologist. She said that Jude’s vision issues are not related to the tumors but must be related to the radiation. Maybe the optical nerve was radiated. She’s checking with the radiation oncologist in Indiana about that. So, overall good news and I’ll breathe a little easier until the next one in 4 months.