hello everyone I am writing to get some feedback about what to expect before and after my surgery. Is there anything I should know that the doctors forgot to...
Hi Sonya,  Best advice i can give is not to freak out, today’s medical wonders makes this type of surgery pretty common place. Make peace with all the...
YES YOU WILL BE NUDE UNDER THE GOWN BUT THEY WILL PUT A BLANKET ON YOU . AND YOU WILL BE TIRED LIKE NEVER BEFORE .BUT JUST REST AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. I...
The imformation in this group is worth more than it's weight in gold. Most of the people in this room have walked a mile or two in your shoes or are about to. ...
Sonya....Stop fretting! You will do fine! If you have a choice, just shave your head. It is hard to take care of hair around the shaved part. I had long thick...
Dear Sonya, I, myself I will start radiation soon for my 2 M. One good advice: get your family and friend around you. They are and will be your best support...
... First of all, our prayers are with you. If I had it to do over again, and I also pray none of us ever do again, I would have shaved my entire head before...
There is news... not what I was expecting but as the kids say, you get what you get and you don't throw a fit.? According to Dr. Avery surgery is not an option...
Oh no please don't shave your head! It is just 10 days or so of awkward staples, then they are gone. Once my staples were gone you couldn't even tell I had any...
My experience 20 months ago was fairly unremarkable considering all of my pre-surgical anxiety. As a matter of fact, i was up walking and talking within 8...
Hey Sonja, my experience after surgery was in and out of sleep for 2 days. I didn't even knoe the catheter was in there. I was very drugged up with morphine...
Oh, I agree! Maybe get a shorter cut if you have really long hair, but no need to shave it. They only took a strip off mine too in a big "L" shape.  They...
Hello everyone, my name is Nick I am 40 years old and I live in Las Vegas. I was diagnose with meninigioma in September of 2008. I had 1 seizure in September...
Hi Nick I also had an olfactory groove meningioma, it was a fraction smaller than yours. I didn't have any symptoms like seizures (they found it by accident),...
Hi Nick, I am Norma.My M was in the right frontal lobe, and I am 67. I had my M removed almost immediately after a massive seizure in 2005. I can only tell you...
Focus and concentration I just read the June 2009 issue of Readers Digest, lots of good memory articles and brain stuff, at first back in 1986 I could only...
... Hi Sarah, I first want to thank you for responding to my message, I would like to ask you did the doctor mention that you may lose your sense of smell? I...
... Hello Norma, I want to thank you for responding so quick and I would like to ask you for as many details about your operation and post operation, if you...
Hi Nick, I was in hospital for 2.5 days after surgery, they wanted to send me home after 1.5 days as I was doing so well, but I requested to stay a day longer....
I've already learned so much from the group, but now I'm seriously considering traveling elsewhere for my surgery. Does anyone know how long after surgery for...
Dick, I had my surgery in Pittsburgh and I was able to fly home in 10 days after surgeries. My equilibrium was off but everything went well. Mary ......
Sarah:   It is good to hear that you are doing SO well! You have really navigated through all of this like a champ. I enjoyed your blog. God Bless, ...
Yes thank You Sarah so much for sharing specific details of your successful initial recovery, and being able to safely fly 10 days later, many brain tumor...
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