My Brain Tumor
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I'm so sorry to hear that, Trekker. I don't know much about this condition, but do they need to do anything if it's benign? Best of luck, and I pray everything will be all right.
Thanks again everyone.
If it's benign they pretty much do nothing (nothing they really can do, I suppose) I just keep taking the medication for the seizures.
If it's benign they pretty much do nothing (nothing they really can do, I suppose) I just keep taking the medication for the seizures.
There's only 2 or 3 posters around here I don't like, one enough to have him on my ignore list. You aren't one of them. I may have disagreed with you afew times, mostly I suspect with politics in TNZ, but that's TNZ and politics.
I appreciate your well-wishes and all and everyone.
Holdfast:
I suspect that this tumor is slow-growing, the estimation on it seems to be that I may have-had it for as long as 15 years and right now it's only the size mentioned above. (about the size of a large grape) I'll have to have MRIs done every 6 months to a year to watch it, but the impression I got is that it is slow-growing. I've taken the news in stride and am trying to take this a day at a time. Right now I'm just upset about the "hassle" of it like being on yet another mecdication, the regular MRIs I'm going to have to have and just the worry of it becoming a problem down the road. (Not to mention the concerns I have about the surgery/biopsy.)
But I've tried to take it stride, I was making jokes about it last night with my parents and today at work. For example I was playing Scrabble with my mom last night and I was winning at one point and my das asked us who was winning and said, "I'm winning and I have a brain tumor."
I was also using it as an excuse -in a kidding manner- at work to "get out of" doing things, or a co-worker was complaining about something in her life and I said, "Oh yeah?! Well I have a brain tumor!"
Yeah, yeah, it's more of a leision but I'm trying to take it as lightly as possible to make this whole mess easier.
Humour can be good, as can distraction. Of course, it doesn't work all the time... but there's no rule to say it has to really, is there?
Good luck through this tough period.
Yep, but this is a genuine understandable thing to be anxious about. Frankly, I'd be worried if you weren't concerned about this! So don't fret about fretting, if you know what I mean.
Well, the neurologist told me the biopsy is fairly "routine" or at least done fairly often. It's even an out patient surgery!
I'm just kind of wondering what they do to cover up and protect the hole in my skull until the skin and bone grows back. (And I can't see the bone growing back all that quickly.)
I'm just kind of wondering what they do to cover up and protect the hole in my skull until the skin and bone grows back. (And I can't see the bone growing back all that quickly.)
I may never eat grapes again. And I really like grapes. Thanks, a lot, Trekker's tumor.
Good luck with the tests.
Oh it IS very routine. But I'd still be worried - I think it's perfectly natural to be worried about this sort of thing!
The hole is really, really tiny. It's been a while since I've seen one done, but IIRC, they just place a single stitch holding the skin from either side of the hole together, to close it up. The procedure may have changed over the years though, so don't take my word as gospel on this. But I suspect it's basically the same.
Oh it IS very routine. But I'd still be worried - I think it's perfectly natural to be worried about this sort of thing!
Yeah, this what I was telling friends and family about it. That I know, and trust, that the surgeon will know what he's doing, and that I've been told this procedure is fairly routine, however at the same time a hole is still being made in my skull, a needle still shoved into my brain, I'm still going to be under some-kind-of drugs (I presume I'll be conscious during this procedure but will be under some drugs to numb any pain and discomfort) so one should still be prepared for "any" risk. One should be anytime a surgeon has to cut a hole into your body and you're going under drugs.
Leave the hole. Let the voices escape.
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