Ah-OOO-Gah!

Important fact: Only one of Karen's eyes is affected.

Yesterday Miranda and I noticed that Karen's left eye appeared wider and kind of bulging out. So I called the oncologist and left a message before running some errands. Despite leaving everyone at home on mandatory "Answer the phone" status, the return call went unheard and we decided that apparently nothing urgent was going on. Wrong. I recalled the doctor this morning and was told we had been called back the day before with the directive "Go right to the ER." Oops.

So Karen and I went to the hospital.

The fear here was that the brain metastases had reasserted themselves and were literally pushing Karen's eye out. A CAT scan was ordered and, long story short, her brain looked just the same as in her last MRI in May. In fact, there seemed to be no real reason or cause for this. So we went home.

And that's the whole story. Just another exciting day in CancerVille.

Meanwhile, the side effects of the Zykadia are kicking in. The gastrointestinal issues are no joke and I've woken up each day this week to the music of Karen vomiting in the adjoining bathroom. She's super-fatigued and sleeps most of the day. Her other symptoms--pain, coughing, etc.--persist but we wouldn't expect to see anything change quite yet. It took the crizotinib a good two weeks to really kick in. So, while I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again, we wait and see.