Tiffany's Rough Year

Part 11

13 Nov 96 (11:30 PM):


The last month and a half have been a roller
coaster ride.  Tiffany has appeared to do
better, then worse, then better, then worse,
then better.

A couple of weeks ago, she lost feeling and
control in one side of her body.  It returned
slowly over the course of a few days.  She
started feeling bad again, and her urine turned
a bizarre, copper color, and Tiffany ended up in
the hospital. CAT scans show that the tumor
has not grown a bit (which is unheard of with
this type of tumor), and is a rather bizarre
shape, looking like "a meteor, with craters
all over it", instead of its usual smooth,
rounded shape.  The doctors haven't seen
anything like it (remember, this includes
one of the world's experts on this sort of
tumor).  The scans also showed no other
tumor activity, anywhere.

She's been back home for about a week.  She's
in good spirits.  Her face is still swollen,
but much less than it was a while back.  The
best guess is still that this is because her
lymph glands are blocked up, trying to deal
with the dying tumor cells and white blood
cells.  This would account for the other
problems as well.  Her body just isn't able
to deal with so much garbage being processed
somewhere in her head.

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