Y90 Side Effects and Results

Hey there, just providing a quick update on what happened and what's going on tomorrow.

Y90 Side Effects: So a few weeks ago I had the Y90 procedure and similarly to the mapping I was awake but sedated throughout the procedure.  I remember them injecting the beads through a tube that went up from my leg up into my liver and them monitoring it on the giant screen in front of them.  Didn't feel a thing.  

Afterwards, I went up to the outpatient room for a bit to monitor me to ensure my artery was properly sealed, and once relatively stable, I made my way down to nuclear medicine for a scan to ensure I wasn't leaking too much radiation, which I wasn't.  I was then sent home, and felt a bit drowsy in the afternoon and took a nice long nap.  The next day, however, I felt perfectly fine, no side effects from the radiation, and no residual pain from the procedure.  Of course I was directed not to lift anything >10lbs so my artery doesn't burst open, but aside from that I felt great, and continued to not experience any side effects from the radiation.  

Was it effective?  Not sure yet; tomorrow I'll go back into UW to have an MRI scan to check the size of the tumors to see how effective the radiation was, and will speak to the doctor about how we plan on attacking the spots on the other side of the liver.  It sounds like based on my bloodwork that my liver wasn't too badly damaged, which means that if the procedure shrunk down the tumors, we should be able to repeat this procedure.

I'll post shortly after I find out, but until then, let's hope that the radiation was effective and that the others haven't grown.  Thanks for reading!

- Jerome