THE STEPHENSON'S

Well, here we are March, and still don't know any more than I did before. We know what he (my dad) doesn't have...which we pretty much already knew. He spent a week in the hospital in St. George in February, they thought he had some diesease or fungus, but didn't find anything that way. He did have pnemonia and is being treated for that... SO, the Dr. finally gave up and sent him to a Neuro Oncologist in Salt Lake, who just deals with the brain. He took one look at the MRI and said "um, we need a biopsy". Well hello, DUH! These Dr's have pretty much been wasting precious time. If we'd had a biopsy from the beginning, before the steroids, we would know by now what we're facing. So, the plan is now, to take him off the steroids, (which we knew, but the Dr. in St. George put him back on), within the next 10 days, and then he'll be off of them for 2 weeks. That'll be the challenge. He can't function very well without them. Once he's off the steroids for the 2 weeks, they'll do another MRI, and probably schedule him for the biopsy. We're hoping that we know something by the 1st of April. It's been so sad to watch him go down hill so fast. He's such a sweet guy, he doesn't deserve this. He'll probably never be the man we've all come to love, but hopefully he'll still be the one we cherish. We can deal with short term memory loss and him being forgetful, we just hope that he'll still be VAN. I'll post when I know more.....