Dawn of the Update (I am running out of titles, oh god...)

It occurs to me that I never mentioned the NEW plan that the doctors came up with later on Friday. It's a good one. Jaime's responding pretty well to the medicine they've got him on - a combination of Diamox and his old pal Decadron. His double vision's getting better, and the headaches occur only rarely now and are easily controlled with pain killers when they do. Apparently the doctors all discussed his case at their Tumor Board meeting and decided the best thing to do would be to drain a large quantity of CSF, keep him on the medicine, and only go for the shunt if a few weeks from now the problem isn't getting resolved. They drained the fluid on Friday (I think... everything kind of blurs together here) and he's been feeling not too bad since. Doesn't hurt that he's over his cold now too. Passed it to me, the jerk. Sniff.

They're trying to put an IV in him now so he can get a CT scan done to check and make sure there are no tumors left in his body. Fingers crossed, yet again. I'm gonna curl up with a tissue box and try to nap.