Wishes for Rassie

Hi there Family & Friends.  I have not blogged in quite some time.  The last time I did, we were fundraising for Light the Night.  We participated.  It was great to get out and meet others in similar situations.  We were PROUD to support the cause.

Rassie and the kids at the 2011 Light the Night Walk in Austin.

We plan on participating in the 2012 Light the Night Walk as this year in November!  We have already set up our Team Rassie Page.

So, things are going well.  Rassie is still considered in clinical remission.  He is seeing a new doctor.  She has switched him from Gleevec to Tasigna.  We still have a few questions about that and so I will be tagging along to his next Oncology appointment.  I do know that the Gleevec was leaving his triglyceride levels high and that was cause for concern. 

His paralysis seems to be doing good as well.  We had a set back in April.  Both of Rassie's legs went numb again.  It scared us both! His doctor seems to think it was a spasm in his back that irritated the damaged nerves and caused the paralysis again.  The feeling did come back after about a week.  We were very, very thankful for that.  Rassie's doctor says there are no promises that these spasms will not happen again in the future.  But for now we seem to be in the clear. There is still numbness in his right leg from the knee down.  Rassie continues to wear an athletic type knee brace for this.  This past weekend Rassie had some muscle cramps in the calf of his right leg.  We are optimistic that this will bring back all feeling in that leg soon!