First, thank you everyone. Your well wishes mean a lot to me, and I've passed them them on. My folks have no idea who you are, I just mentioned people I know online are pulling for them.
The diagnosis came back with two masses on the brain. One of them appears to be a potentially cancerous growth, it's golf ball size and is pressing on the brain. This may have been there for some time, but she's just of the age that it's become a problem. The other one appears to be a smaller, benign (such a weasel word) growth, and they aren't worried about that.
She had a consultation with the neurosurgery team, they're going to take it out tomorrow. She'll be in surgery for a few hours, and then ICU for a few days. Not much I can do from here, so I'm going to go about my business and wait to see what happens.
Rest of the family showed up for a while as well, but she was well out of it by then - there was a lot of pain earlier and that just wore her down. And I do mean a lot, she's normally very resistant to that kind of thing and when doctors ask on a scale of 1-10 how much does it hurt, she goes "your scale or mine?"
But again, thank you - I sincerely appreciate all of you.
9/5: She went into surgery around 2:30EST, will take about 2.5 hours total. 2 days in the ICU after that.
First, thank you everyone. Your well wishes mean a lot to me, and I've passed them them on. My folks have no idea who you are, I just mentioned people I know online are pulling for them.
The diagnosis came back with two masses on the brain. One of them appears to be a potentially cancerous growth, it's golf ball size and is pressing on the brain. This may have been there for some time, but she's just of the age that it's become a problem. The other one appears to be a smaller, benign (such a weasel word) growth, and they aren't worried about that.
She had a consultation with the neurosurgery team, they're going to take it out tomorrow. She'll be in surgery for a few hours, and then ICU for a few days. Not much I can do from here, so I'm going to go about my business and wait to see what happens.
Rest of the family showed up for a while as well, but she was well out of it by then - there was a lot of pain earlier and that just wore her down. And I do mean a lot, she's normally very resistant to that kind of thing and when doctors ask on a scale of 1-10 how much does it hurt, she goes "your scale or mine?"
But again, thank you - I sincerely appreciate all of you.
9/5: She went into surgery around 2:30EST, will take about 2.5 hours total. 2 days in the ICU after that.
