I received an email this morning from Dr. Liau, and here is exactly what she said: So far, the pathologists are still calling your tumor a low-grade glioma (grade II). However, they have not finished all the stains yet, so have not ruled out the possibility of a grade III. We will hopefully get the [...]
Ok, not quite. But only 31 more hours until I can get out of here!!! I am SO excited about that. I've been emailing back and forth with my neurosurgeon today and she said that my post-op MRI looks good. I had that done yesterday. She said that the tumor that she left in there [...]
Ohmyword!!! What sleep does for a person! We had to pay extra to get a private room, but at the point I was yesterday, I would've paid $1000's to get one. They had me in ICU the night before and I got caught up on all of these doctors/nurse's lives the entire night. I'm like....and [...]
We hope all they hear from her tonight is a whole lot of Zzzzzzzzzzz's coming from her private room. She is very grateful to be there and finally able to get some much needed sleep. She 's complaining some of the pain, but if she can sleep, I think it will go a long ways [...]
We are a family of "processors", meaning we take in the details, consider the facts, weigh the options, etc. etc. before we do much talking. Yesterday's news gave us pause to "process". Now we can talk about what we learned. This is what we now know.... 1_) The swelling was definitely new tumor hiding under [...]
Marvin was up at the hospital early this AM. Poor guy is not getting much sleep. For him to accomplish this, he has to walk from a parking lot over a mile away. It's been quite cold and rainy in the AM's, so we know that was a heart driven to be with his wife [...]