Necrosis shmosis...canes are cool.

Hey everyone,

Im writing on behalf of the hubby. He's feeling pretty sick since chemo on wednesday but he wanted me to write about the news we found out.

Basically we finally have a real answer for the pain Nima's been getting in his knees. Part of his chemo protocal is recieving alot of steroids....these are the ones that first made him depressed, angry, agressive (dexamethasone) and secondly the poofy face..... its actually called moon face.... anyway this new steroid (prednisone) has caused nimas bones to degenerate and as a result he's now got avascular necrosis of the knees.....basically there was no oxygen getting to Nimas joints (steroids do this) so the bones have died. Because of this both knee joints have collapsed and he's going to need surgery to fix them....I tried to find an image to show you guys but I could only find one for avascular necrosis of the hip...its basically the same thing....

Surgery at the moment is out of the question because of the chemo...and we really dont know how much longer he's going to be on it....(still waiting on the transplant peeps) but we got our indoor bike in the mail...so thankyouthankyou Niyaz and Nahal...you guys rock...

anyway this whole training for a transplant is going well and Nimas been on the bike everyday......ok maybe not today...he gets a pass :) but the docs say its a good form of exercise to start bringing his body back from all this cc junk...and its not bad for his knees. The docs have also stopped the steroids and Nima has an appointment with a pain specialist in a week.

So since we got this news we've come up with a plan....we are not going to be sad...cuz canes are cool....and from now on when we travel we're going to collect them from every country we visit..

Nimas exact words " Im gonna get a samurai to carve one for me with his sword!"

anyway thanks guys for reading...we are both really grateful for all the support.

love love love