This weekend my mom made her fourth trip to the ER in six months. She’s in relatively stable condition for having a tumor in her brain—thanks to an arsenal of medications to help relieve headaches or swelling—but it’s important that she pays attention to when those levels of pain or discomfort increase over normal levels. It’s one of a handful of symptoms we have to monitor any changes that might be going on in her head.
Here she is doing stretches while waiting to be taken in for an MRI at Little Company of Mary in Torrance.