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Home lessons

01/12/2013 12:48
Due to everyday visits to the hospital and suppressed immune system Jimmy cannot go to school.  However his teachers visit us at home and give him some private lessons... Great help... He should feel that life goes on and continuing with his lessons is a good step!

Second opinion

25/11/2013 15:37
I feel the need to get some second medical opinions from hospitals outside Greece... So I sent the MRI and all medical info to several hospitals in Europe and the US...  I am looking forward to an optimistic reply...

Start the treatment

20/11/2013 09:00
After a week of preparation, today we started treatment... Heavy radiation in 30 sessions and chemotherapy... Jimmy is quite tired... He hardly walks. We have told him that there is a small ball in his brain that blocks the nerve and that's why his foot and arm are not very strong... We have to...

Meet the doctors

13/11/2013 10:00
Appointment with doctors was immediately arranged... Situation critical... The tumor is big and aggressive, treatment must start asap... Doctors do not talk about prognosis... They say each patient is different, there is no reason to talk about statistics... When doctors do not give percentages of...

Diagnosis

12/11/2013 20:00
MRI day, and all of us went to the hospital.  The MRI took more than 90 minutes... Too long for an MRI... Noone was telling us anything... This cannot be good... When the doctor came out, his face was full of  disappointment... Jimmy was diagnosed with the worst and most aggressive brain...

Just before the diagnosis...

11/11/2013 19:48
During last three weeks Jimmy has had difficulties with his left foot.  We visited an orthopedic who said it was just a sprained ankle, but since the problem persisted, we visited a second orthopedic who told us it has nothing to do with orthopedics, and that we had to visit immediately a...
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