Brian Robert & LCH: MRI

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

MRI

This morning Brian had a MRI of his brain. Because he is five and not going to sit still in a tube for 45 minutes, it was done with sedation. Brian did well. He is still a little "wobbly" as he would put it, but doing well.
Because Brian was getting sedated he could not have anything to eat after dinner last night and nothing but clear liquids throughout the night. This morning he was cut off from clear liquids at 8:00 am. Brian didn't get taken back until almost 11am this morning. He's quite a trooper. We gave him an extra DDAVP pill this morning for his DI to help him through the no drinking thing. I think it helped.

We are not expecting any surprises from the MRI, but please be praying that nothing has changed. We will probably not hear the results from the scans until Brian's next chemo appointment in three weeks.

Here is a picture of Brian from this morning. He was waiting for his turn to go back and he was getting a bit anxious at this point. We were thankful for the distraction of the Buzz Lightyear car thing in the waiting area, even though Brian is a bit too big for it. :-)

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Brian, BB or "B-ber"

Brian is our seven year old boy. He is the third of four children, all born in just four years. Sept 2009 Brian was diagnosed with Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis. He spent seven months on Chemo and steriods. In April 2010 we had his port removed and celebrated "no more chemo!". His treatment from May forward was oral medicine on the weekends and scans/bloodwork every three months. Brian's firt set of scans/follow up with the oncologist in July were wonderful. We didn't quite make it to his second set of scans three months later in October. In late July/ early August we started noticing suspicious bumps on his scalp and a rash on his private area. On Sept 15, 2010 we took Brian to his oncologist. That appointment revealed the possibilty of more chemo. September 21 we had a biopsy that two days later revealed that Brian's LCH was back. We immediately had surgery to implant a port and in Oct 2010 started a second journey through chemotherapy and steroids for our little Brian. In March 2011 Brian's chemo drugs were changed around as his new protocal was not working. Brian was still presenting symptoms. We went back to the original combination of drugs but this time instead of being on them six months the plan was for twelve months. Brian completed his second round of chemo March 8, 2012. Even though Brian was completing treatment, we started noticing symptoms of Diabetes Insipidus in March 2012. He was diagnosed with D.I. March 22, 2012. His new diagnosis was considered a relapse for his LCH. Brian's third round (or fourth protocol depending on how you look at it) of chemo and a totally different protocol began April 2012. He had chemo five days in a row followed by a three week break for 12 months. He completed that protocol the first week of April 2013. In July of 2013 Brian had his port removed and we were over the moon excited about NO MORE CHEMO. In October of 2013 Brian had a recurrence of symptoms. He took six months of oral chemo. In April of 2014 he had another MRI. It was decided that Brian could stop treatment. By August-September 2014 he started showing symptoms again. October 2014 we are back in Houston to see what the next step will be for treatment of Brian's LCH.