Some answers

It is a humbling thing knowing the many prayers that are being offered in behalf of your daughter. Wednesday morning Ricki 's neurosurgeon gave us the good news that the MRI of her spine didn't show any cause for her headaches.  She had some small growth of one of her tumors but it was nothing that we needed to be concerned about for now. We feel so blessed for her tumors to have remained stable.  As a mom I am still trying to understand how to maneuver around in the medical world trying to understand all the medical terms and what the mean for Ricki. 

When they released Ricki from the hospital Wednesday night she was not having any headache pain but by morning the headache had returned.  The told us they felt that because Ricki had been taking so much ibuprofen for her pain that now it could be actually causing her headaches so we are not to give her ibuprofen for her pain.  Instead they have started her on an ant-seizure medicine and then up to 3 days a week she can take a combination of Benadryl, zofran and Aleve.occasionally she may also take a migraine medicine when she feels a bad one coming on.  So, for now we are back to enduring the headaches. Ricki is a good sport about the whole thing. She amazes me with her positive attitude and determination not to let it get her down.  I have much to learn from her!