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Mary started showing weight gain about two weeks ago. She had an extensive discussion with the radiation oncologists on Mon and Tues last week and the result was a blood draw added to her procedure on Tuesday with the results on Wednesday being nominal. The radiologists are worried that they cooked her liver and it is failing. However, the blood tests from last week and the battery of tests she had today are all showing the liver is working just fine.

Over the weekend, Mary complained that she had gained so much weight even her 'fat girl' clothes were not fitting. Yesterday morning, our home scale showed she had gained about 10 pounds in about two weeks. This morning, it was clear something was not right so we called Stanford and talked to the resident radiologist (same doc as last week). That caused the trip at 11AM today for a blood test. Ingrid met us there and took Mary home while I went to work.

When I got home, I found Mary suffering discomfort from the bloat and also a headache. That caused another call to Stanford and the same resident asked she come in to ED. We packed a bag and arrived at 7:30PM.

Mary is back from her CT Scan and we are now waiting for the results. As Mary just said, one part of her hopes they found nothing so she can go home. But that is problematic because she is still bloated. The other part of her wants something to be found so they can fix it.

ATT suffers a bit of a dead zone here in ED so our cell phones are not working. Fortunately, Stanford runs a guest wifi so email is easy.

Hanging out in the ED is no fun...there are a bunch of sick and hurt people here.