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Things get much worse as tumours spread fast

Things crawl in the darkness That imagination spins Needles at your nerve ends Crawl like spiders on your skin Pounding in your temples And a surge of adrenaline Every muscle tense — To fence The enemy within - Rush, "The Enemy Within" We don't know how or why, if there is a how or a why, but Amanda's cancer has woken up and is on the move, double-time. Things have become much worse in the time since the last update. At that point, the docs had found a couple of spots on her ribs that were causing her pain. They zapped it with radiation to give her some relief. Since then, things have progressed quickly. Just after the hospital stay when they were trying to get Amanda's pain under control, docs found more bone metastases in her sacrum (large, triangular bone at the base of the spine ) and iliac crest (the big wing-like bone on the pelvis where they harvest bone marrow). More radiation. This time, the radiation hasn't knocked the pain dow