Tom's tremors are returning - his hands are shaky. This is how it all started last time when he was finally admitted into the hospital because he couldn't keep his balance. It's extremely frustrating, not to mention baffling, as I'm sure it is for you all as well.
Tom is to the point of just stopping all 14 of his medicines (without permission) except for just a couple. Today when he showed the doctor his tremoring hands he told Tom that "the doctors are all scratching their heads". Tom is a unique case. The doctor told him to monitor his hands and report any changes.
All of your support continues to be so helpful to us both. We know that each one of you think about us often, and pray, send positive thoughts, whatever you do - it's all valuable. Thank you so much.
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Hey Guys,
I'm sorry to hear about the tremors. I can only imagine how anxious and frustrated you both must feel. It's got to be something really simple causing this. Maybe it's a food item in your diet at home. Or maybe something in the air in your home. That doesn't mean anything bad, but it could be something rather innocent. I don't know, but I would look back and compare the hospital stays and how many days he was home before the tremors started. Maybe I've been watching too much Dr. House. I really believe there is a simple solution behind all this.
Next summer, when we're eating our shrimp Po'Boys, sipping a cold beer, and watching the sun set on Biloxi Bay, these tremors will just be a memory. We might even let Chris join us. Ha. Ha.
I love you both and know you'll get to the bottom of things. Be relentless.
Hugs,
Elise
From my experience with my mom having Parkinson's disease medicine, I think it is one of the meds that Tom is taking. Who knows which one, but before you both get all freaked out about his tremors, if you can just remember that some medications have side effects which aren't permanent, meaning that once they are discontinued, the side effects will go away, then maybe you can see that this isn't something to worry a lot about.
I do understand that this was a precursor to Tom's returning to the hospital, but because he is taking such strong medicine, and has a number of medications to interact with each other, I as an undereducated health care unprofessional would guess that Tom's tremors are just an annoyance, temporary in scope, probably something that is affecting his nervous system, but not something that will put him back in the hospital.
Let's hope that the bone marrow extraction results show great improvement. In that case, this tremor issue will be not the result of leukemia or the bone marrow transplant, but actually the interaction of his current medications.
I'm hoping great things for you folks!
Love and hugs
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