YES I AM!

Alrighty Then! Well the news is in and it's better than I had dared hope for. It would seem that my ol' ticker looks to be OK - but that as usual my problems are all in my mind (or my pituitary tumor). Though it is probably much harder to deal with than a simple stint or valve replacement, it shouldn't involve cutting me up to fix. This is that part which I think is the good news. The bad news of course is that means that my wacky endocrine system has tried to kill me yet again. This time was the closest call yet as my Blood Pressure was driven down to 50/30 before medical intervention could recover it. We have been playing a cat and mouse game for the last few days, but I think my wonderful Doctors have it firmly under their paw now and we should be able to stabilize me soon and get me back to the world of the living. The big holdups are the final blood cultures to figure out what lingering infections might be lurking causing the low-grade fevers and the amount of time that it takes for the endocrine tests to come back. At this point - the key question we need to know before I can go home is just how much cortisol is the tumor producing - so that we can adjust the other drugs around it, then if possible, it would be nice to know the direction and rate of any changes in cortisol. For now, I will be subject to much stricter monitoring after I get out and will need closer followup until things get completely stabilized. For now we are going to assume that all of this is going to be, in the long run, a change for the better. So when people ask me if I am ever going to get better - I can say with confidence - "YES I AM!"