Quick Update

Nothing really new to report, but I have some good news and some potentially not so good news... The good news is I got a letter from our insurance that they will cover the Sutent for me!! Praise the Lord!! I'm not sure how to go about getting the medicine (through my local pharmacy or a specialty pharmacy) but at least it will be covered! I'm waiting to hear from my doctor the next step. The potentially not so good news is that my blood pressure has been really high all week and we're not sure yet what's causing it to be. Monday it was 130/97, which is high in general, especially for me. I started getting a headache monday and it hasn't really gone away. So yesterday (wednesday) I went up to Walgreens and had them check it and it was still a little high at 113/91. I talked to my oncologists' nurse about it and she said to check it everyday this week twice a day and keep a log of it and if it's still up at the beginning of next week, let them know. Then today, I still had a slight headache so after my radiation treatment today, I had the nurse check it and it was up to 141/104! She then checked both arms while I was sitting, standing, and laying down and all 6 times it averaged about 135/103. She paged my radiologist and talked to him for a few minutes and he didn't think it wasn't anything to be too concerned about yet, but just to be safe he issued for me to have an MRI. So about lunchtime today, I had an MRI done at the hospital there in Alexander City. They called me about 2PM and told me there was nothing abnormal about the MRI and everything seemed fine, just to keep monitoring my BP and see where it is first of the week. I'm not really worried about this yet, but I'm just not sure what could be raising it. I've never had high BP, even during my recovery time from surgery or any of the other meds I've been on. Hopefully it will go down on its own this weekend and it will be nothing to worry about.