I just finished Stereotactical Radio Surgery, the poor man's Gamma Knife. It
took almost forty minutes and the nurse congratulated me on not moving.
Actually after I laid on the table I went into a trance state and it just
seemed like a couple of minutes to me. This is easy to do because of all the
meds. I am on. The closest Gamma Knife machine is in Portland, which is
almost 300 miles away. My doctors assured me that the procedure I was
getting duplicated the Gamma Knife one, but it would just take longer. Yeah
and these are the same guys who told me my menningioma would grow back so
slowly I would die of old age before it ever got big enough to start to
bother me again. Well it is back now as big as ever. Jon

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From: mamalank@...
Reply-To: meningioma@yahoogroups.com
To: meningioma@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [meningioma] thank you all - and complete story
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:40:57 -0500

Tori, have you considered gamma knife surgery. No incision....just?
radiation. My gamma knife proceedure is scheduled for May 7. I
have a pre proceedure consult the afternoon of the 6th. They say
most people can return to work the following day. I am disabled with
kidney failure, addisons disease and perhaps scleroderma and
lymphodema in my right arm and hand . Scleroderma diagnosis is to
be made after I get my head fixed.!! These complicated any hope of
open head surgery. I hope I made the right decision. Actually, my
only choices were watch it. or gamma knife. I had breast cancer 5
years and 4 months ago. Strangely , I had cancer in both breasts
and each was its own tumor. I had not had it in one and spread it to
the second breast. I actually had cancer two times at once, so to
speak.
I have been told that breast cancer patients have menengiomas
much more frequently than "regular people" Isn't life grand????

Margret

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