The neurosurgeon just spoke with me, Mike and Eric. The operation was successful, with no complications, and they hope she will be in her intermediate recovery room in about 2 hours. He said the tumor was not particularly "vascular" which means there was not much bleeding. He still reiterated that with the extensive swelling that had already occurred in her brain, that it was going to be probably 6 months before she would be back to normal. He did not feel that the extensive swelling would result in any permanent brain damage causing her recent symptoms to continue, so I'm hopeful on that front as well. He confirmed that it was a meningioma and they will biopsy it to make sure there are no irregularities.
All in all--we are very happy! I will keep you posted.
Jaron
February 8, 2010
Family & Friends:
Well the doctors have found a marble-to-golf-ball sized tumor on the meninges of my mom's head - it's called a Meningioma (more information than I can do justice to is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningioma). While the tumor is actually not in or on the brain (but rather the meninges which is the membrane between the brain and skull), the swelling and pressure are causing some impacts on her brain and functionality. While it's obviously a scary and delicate situation, it's actually, as the Doctors have said, the "best possible bad news" that we could have received. It's benign and in a very operable spot, all of which are good things. My mom and dad were meeting w/ a Neurosurgeon at Mayo this afternoon to discuss treatment and arrange a time for removing.
I know that I've expressed heightened concern over the past several weeks and months, so we're hoping this will be a good step toward a fuller and healthy recovery for my mom. Thanks for all the concern and love for her over the many years...Mike
Well the doctors have found a marble-to-golf-ball sized tumor on the meninges of my mom's head - it's called a Meningioma (more information than I can do justice to is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningioma). While the tumor is actually not in or on the brain (but rather the meninges which is the membrane between the brain and skull), the swelling and pressure are causing some impacts on her brain and functionality. While it's obviously a scary and delicate situation, it's actually, as the Doctors have said, the "best possible bad news" that we could have received. It's benign and in a very operable spot, all of which are good things. My mom and dad were meeting w/ a Neurosurgeon at Mayo this afternoon to discuss treatment and arrange a time for removing.
I know that I've expressed heightened concern over the past several weeks and months, so we're hoping this will be a good step toward a fuller and healthy recovery for my mom. Thanks for all the concern and love for her over the many years...Mike
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