As many of you know, there are several open polls on our website. I have just posted a poll to see how you all feel about starting up regular polling again. ...
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BrainSurgery@yahoogro...
Jan 15, 2004 9:20 pm
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the BrainSurgery group: How many of you would be interested in a weekly poll? We could cover all sorts...
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Sidbeinart@...
Jan 15, 2004 8:02 pm
How do I unsubscribe? sid beinart@......
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Sanmich@...
Jan 15, 2004 7:28 pm
Hi Sheryl, Sounds like your tumor is located in the same area where my cyst is. From what I have heard and read the procedure used today is so more advanced...
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Sheryl Roberts
massagebysher
Jan 15, 2004 2:27 pm
... That's what I ... located. ... Hi Sandy, My tumor is located in the 3rd ventricle. It's sitting on the bottom of the ventricle, on the membrane just above...
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bilovsky@...
Jan 15, 2004 2:32 am
Dear Friends of our Brain Tumor Community, This email is to urge you to phone the offices of your Senator urging that they pass the Consolidated Appropriations...
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anne91547@...
famnine
Jan 14, 2004 10:14 pm
Dear Brain Activists, We (NABTC, our lawyer, Morgan, etc and I) wrote to urge your support for HR 2673, the Consolidated Appropriations Bill, which includes...
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anne91547@...
famnine
Jan 12, 2004 10:59 am
Please post this BRAINY NEWS announcement on any other websites you belong to; especially Mothers Against Drunk Drivers or highway safety and auto safety, gun...
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Sanmich@...
Jan 10, 2004 12:10 am
Hi Sheryl, I'm glad to hear that this particular tumor is usually benign. That's what I was told about the colloid cyst. Where in the brain is yours located. ...
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Sheryl Roberts
massagebysher
Jan 8, 2004 1:27 am
Hi Sandy, No, I have no symptoms. The new chiropractic neurologist I started seeing a year ago recommended I have an MRI to rule out a 'hard lesion' (don't you...
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Sanmich@...
Jan 6, 2004 11:43 pm
Hi Sheryl, I had/have a colloid cyst in the 3rd ventricle. Had surgery in 1986 to remove it, but the doc decided to drain it instead. He felt removing it would...
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Sheryl Roberts
massagebysher
Jan 4, 2004 6:00 pm
Thanks Trisha. I live in Salem County NJ. It would be great if there was someone in my area from this group to talk to in more detail. My husband is not...
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Trisha Williams
trisha4080
Jan 2, 2004 4:32 pm
Wow... your email really hit me because it is for exactly this type of question that this website/maillist was started. In some ways, the sudden nature of the...
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Kevin Keply
fortworthtexx
Jan 1, 2004 10:31 pm
I had brain surgury tumor removal 14 years ago. I dont know anything about ventracles, but I can tell you my surgury went fine. Looking back, it was not...
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Sheryl
massagebysher
Jan 1, 2004 9:01 pm
Hello everyone! About a year ago my tumor was discovered. We watched it very closely & over a year's time it grew from 1.3cm to 1.7cm. Not much growth, but a...
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Trisha Williams
trisha4080
Dec 16, 2003 5:09 pm
Dear Members, I just wanted to take a moment and wish each and every one of you a fantastic, stupendous, monumental, blissful, happy, content, loving, ...
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PurpleJule@...
purplejule57
Dec 11, 2003 8:01 pm
Dear Delia, I am so sorry to hear about Jose! He is so young. And I cannot imagine you are having to go through a 7th surgery! I have only gone through 1 so...
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Kevin Keply
fortworthtexx
Dec 10, 2003 9:40 am
Delia, I saw this will be your seventh surgury. I am so sorry to hear that. My prayers are with you and with your family. I will pray that you will have a...
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Trisha Williams
trisha4080
Dec 9, 2003 10:07 pm
Delia - I am so sorry to hear your news about Jose and that you have to go through this again. I am sure I speak for all of us in saying that we are all...
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Camachoent@...
Dec 9, 2003 8:57 pm
Hello mates, It's with great sadness that I inform you of the death Jose Alvear, the 14-year-old boy who lost his battle to a very rare brain tumor on Sunday...
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Alan Herendich
alanherendich
Dec 3, 2003 4:07 pm
Hi, I agree with Anne. I just wanted to add my encouragement to get an MRI. Although some doctors will call it a "cure" when the tumor is removed, you are at...
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anne91547@...
famnine
Dec 2, 2003 5:39 pm
Dear M friend, If you go have a follow-up MRI scan your question can be answered. The only way I know is to ask your doctor for an MRI scan test which can...
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Texan
fortworthtexx
Dec 1, 2003 7:25 pm
Hi all, I am looking for some help I had a small low grade brain tumor successfully removed in 1990 that caused grand maul seizures. Seizures started with my...
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Trisha Williams
trisha4080
Nov 30, 2003 2:03 pm
Sandy - Thanks for your note and prayers for Lisa. I have had one co-worker friend and one online friend write to me about their diagnoses of colloid cysts....
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Sanmich@...
Nov 29, 2003 6:50 pm
Hi Trish, Sorry to hear about your cousin. Unfortunately, I do not know much about her condition, but I will add her to my prayer list. You mentioned that you...
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Trisha
trisha4080
Nov 29, 2003 5:26 pm
Hi all, Maybe you have all had a similar experience... before my craniotomy, the only place you'd see someone having brain surgery was on that old show, Ben...
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Trisha Williams
trisha4080
Nov 24, 2003 9:11 pm
Mark, It sounds like you've had an ordeal... hopefully, the oral antibiotics will clear this up for you. You wouldn't expect that after five years! You know,...
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Trisha Williams
trisha4080
Nov 20, 2003 1:06 pm
Dear New Member: As moderator of the Brainsurgery group, I would like to welcome you to our group. Our group is a little different in that we don't have a lot...
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anne91547@...
famnine
Nov 11, 2003 10:40 pm
Dear Friends, Here is some general reading material about current legislative medical drug prescription action, government funding, a good article about...
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anne91547@...
famnine
Nov 3, 2003 6:20 pm
http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2002/neuralstem.htm Neural stem cells move to damaged areas of brain after injury Adult mammalian brain has potential to...
