If a patient cannot swallow oral medications and is using a PEG tube, can Temodar be safely administered?
• One of my friends died recently due to brain tumor. He only survived for two weeks after the day of discovery. One of the early symptoms was that he felt a certain degree of paralysis in his arms when he woke up in the morning. One day, he was completely paralyzed and then he was found to have brain tumor. Recently, I experienced something similar, and this really worries me. This started about 2 weeks ago. While I am sleeping, no matter what kind of position I have (even with my arms lying flat), both of my arms start feeling paralyzed (like the feeling when blood circulation becomes not good after a prolonged fixation of posture). This feeling will be gone for a while if I change position, but will come back not long afterwards. This happens at night only (or maybe during sleeping, I did not try to sleep during the daytime). • My wife had a GBM removed in 1983. She received radiation. She has progressive dementia brought on by the radiation and is now unable to feed herself, bathe,
