ramenth
Well-Known Member
Sorry I haven't been around, folks. It's been an overwhelming whirlwind this past week.
Monday morning my wife went in for a CT. She's been having some issues of late with her memory, a lack of focus, a lack of concentration, mood swings. She went to a shrink who wasn't entirely convinced that's it psychological. He ordered up a CT scan for Monday morning. The CT showed a mass and an MRI was done. The MRI showed that the mass is the size of an egg, located about center mass of her brain where her thalamus is. She was admitted to ICU.
Tuesday an angiogram was done to see if it was an aneurysm. It wasn't.
Wednesday she went in for surgery to insert drainage to relieve swelling and for a biopsy. She was on the table for eight hours.
Yesterday we got the pathology report back on the biopsy. The tissue is abnormal. Abnormal as in it can't be identified as being benign or malignant. The pathology report has been sent out to other labs, hoping someone can identify it.
Right now we have two options: we take a hands off approach and wait and see, through contrast MRI, if the tumor shrinks. That's a good thing. If the tumor stays the same size, or enlarges, the surgeon will be compelled to go back in and get more tissue for another biopsy. Go back in, as in, brain surgery.
Prayers and well wishes for us, folks. It's going to take a while.
Monday morning my wife went in for a CT. She's been having some issues of late with her memory, a lack of focus, a lack of concentration, mood swings. She went to a shrink who wasn't entirely convinced that's it psychological. He ordered up a CT scan for Monday morning. The CT showed a mass and an MRI was done. The MRI showed that the mass is the size of an egg, located about center mass of her brain where her thalamus is. She was admitted to ICU.
Tuesday an angiogram was done to see if it was an aneurysm. It wasn't.
Wednesday she went in for surgery to insert drainage to relieve swelling and for a biopsy. She was on the table for eight hours.
Yesterday we got the pathology report back on the biopsy. The tissue is abnormal. Abnormal as in it can't be identified as being benign or malignant. The pathology report has been sent out to other labs, hoping someone can identify it.
Right now we have two options: we take a hands off approach and wait and see, through contrast MRI, if the tumor shrinks. That's a good thing. If the tumor stays the same size, or enlarges, the surgeon will be compelled to go back in and get more tissue for another biopsy. Go back in, as in, brain surgery.
Prayers and well wishes for us, folks. It's going to take a while.
