Today was a very scary day in the Williamson household. Barry has been experiencing excrutiating headaches for the last two to three days. Although he has pain medication, it only lasts about two to two and a half hours. He has been on his new chemo treatment (Thalomid) for five days. Barry woke today with another excrutiating headache. Later, after resting most of the morning, Barry decided to clean up for the day. During this time, he was very weak and found that the majority of the weakness was on his left side. After struggling with what are usually routine tasks for Barry, he agreed that we needed to talk to the doctor and see what our next step should be. After talking to Dr. Maher, it was off to the ER at St. Paul Hospital - part of the UT Southwestern Campus. Thankfully, they were waiting for us to arrive. They were fairly quick to get Barry back to a room to be examined. He was still in pain when we arrived, so they gave him an injection of pain medicine that they described as 10X stronger than Morphene. I was SHOCKED that he could even talk after receiving that type of medication, but he was still coherent enough to talk to me. After a short stay in the ER, he was admitted to a room following a CAT scan. Thankfully, the CAT scan did not reveal any bleeding as a result of the new tumor growth. (The new tumor is growing in the same place where the original tumor was removed.) Once in the new room, Barry decided that he was starving and had a nice "hospital" meal. We settled in for the evening knowing that our son, Brant was being well taken care of by our dear friends the Chaney's.
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