Kath, Brad, and I spent our entire day at the Center for Health and Healing.  We started off by seeing my physical therapist.  Kath was shown how to massage my legs in an effort to reduce the edema.  Hopefully by reducing the swelling in my legs, the pain will not be nearly as bad!  After this appointment we went to the pain management doctor.  Good news here because he took the last of the steroids off my pill list and he decreased  another one of my pain meds!  He addressed the issue of my appetite.  A few days ago I lost my appetite and I have  not regained it.  I have water retention in my diaphragm.  Hopefully time will take care of this as I get my appetite back.  After this we hung out in the waiting room.  Around 1:00 Dr. Hung's nurse took us into the back where she took my weight.  This is where I knew how bad my water retention was.  I have put on over twenty pounds in under two weeks!!  Dr. Hung has decided to let my cough run its course. The x-ray showed nothing to be concerned about.  He also said that he will have me come back in six weeks to see how I feel.  This checkup will be based on how I do over the next six weeks.  If my condition is the same, great!  If it has gotten worse, then an MRI will be done.  So I hope that I stay the same over the next six weeks.  The key is to stay the same.  Even though my condition is not great, if it does not get worse, I will be happy.  That means that the tumor is not advancing!  Here is to the condition staying the same!!!  I will let you know how the next month is going!