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Hi Lisa @lls8000 , thanks for your concern. My wife is doing pretty good, but getting awfully tired of all the doctor appointments and treatments. She has three or four appointments every week. And the infusion treatments are almost a whole day process. In her condition getting ready for those appointments is drain on her energy. Luckily she's hasn't givien up on the fight yet.
The treatment decision on the tumor in her adrenal gland was radiation, five treatments over two weeks. That has started this week. Her brain MRI on Monday showed that the prevouis four tumors that were radiated are gone! That was great news, but two new tumors have showed up, After radiation on the adrenal gland is done then they will radiate those two. The hits just keep coming, haha.
Thanks for asking about me. Some days I feel worn out also, but I do try to walk a couple of miles everyday and that helps keep my energy level up. And I do sneak a nap in every once in a while!

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@bovic21 The radiation on my wivfe's adrenal gland finsihed 8 days ago.
The problem now is the radiation irritated her stomach so much she is not able to drink or eat anything. She has been in ther hospital for 5 days with fluid IVs, but still not eating.
The doctors are now talking about giving her nutritions thru a tube. It is called TNP.
When I goggled TNP I saw that there are some risks involved.
I was wondering if anyone has some history or knowledge of TNP.
Thanks,
Vic Read