What's wrong with me?!
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Yesterday was one of the first days when I thought "how amazing would it be if they are able to get this tumour out of me and I stop being sick and return to normal!!"
That'd be simply amazing. Tomorrow is D-day I guess, though I don't expect to hear from them for another day or two.
Thanks for the kind words and thoughts chaps, means a lot. And Goldblum - good to hear your experiences, and that you're back to normal now.
That'd be simply amazing. Tomorrow is D-day I guess, though I don't expect to hear from them for another day or two.
Thanks for the kind words and thoughts chaps, means a lot. And Goldblum - good to hear your experiences, and that you're back to normal now.
Have they suggested any treatment yet? My wife has a brain tumour in a similarly inoperable place and it was decided in the end to use gamma knife treatment. This worked in that it stopped to tumour from growing any larger and it actually shrunk a little. Ten years later and it is still okay. Most of the side-effects didn't occur, apart from a slight change in personality 
Good luck with whatever they suggest.
Good luck with whatever they suggest.
Thanks once again for the kind words, chaps.
boxst said:
Have they suggested any treatment yet? My wife has a brain tumour in a similarly inoperable place and it was decided in the end to use gamma knife treatment. This worked in that it stopped to tumour from growing any larger and it actually shrunk a little. Ten years later and it is still okay. Most of the side-effects didn't occur, apart from a slight change in personality
Good luck with whatever they suggest.
Not as yet. I shall hopefully find out more within 1-2 days. Just hope it's something they can get sorted. I'm getting properly fed up with feeling ill all the bloody time, it's really depressing.Good luck with whatever they suggest.
My registrar sent me an email earlier and confirmed it was a tumour of th 4th ventricle (not between it and cerebellum) but said he wasn't sure at this stage what type of tumour it was.
I will almost certainly get a call tomorrow.
The most common type of tumour of this place has a post-op 1 year survival rate of approx 82%. To be fair, I quite like those odds. Oh, it does look like surgery is the option for the most common type.... I use stop looking though because I don't know if it's even that yet! Fingers crossed for the best!
I will almost certainly get a call tomorrow.
The most common type of tumour of this place has a post-op 1 year survival rate of approx 82%. To be fair, I quite like those odds. Oh, it does look like surgery is the option for the most common type.... I use stop looking though because I don't know if it's even that yet! Fingers crossed for the best!
tter. Hope things turn around for you.I found this thread after your comments on the best smoker barges thread, but didn't really want to post in there. I don't know you from adam, but I can only wish you the very best of luck with whatever you have to go through over the coming months. How bittersweet to finally get an explanation of what it is after suffering for well over a year with this, only to find out it's something quite awful and potentially life threatening.
A good friend at work collapsed at work several years ago after steadily worsening symptoms over a period of months. His GP kept telling him it was stress, etc etc but they subsequently found he had a huge brain tumour. He had a rough few months of surgery, chemo, and so forth but they basically sorted him right out. He was off work for some time (6-9 months if I remember correctly) but has now been back for a couple of years with no signs of it reoccurring and is in great shape.
Modern medicine is pretty incredible - I hope they can put it to good use on you, and cure you of this.
Good luck.
A good friend at work collapsed at work several years ago after steadily worsening symptoms over a period of months. His GP kept telling him it was stress, etc etc but they subsequently found he had a huge brain tumour. He had a rough few months of surgery, chemo, and so forth but they basically sorted him right out. He was off work for some time (6-9 months if I remember correctly) but has now been back for a couple of years with no signs of it reoccurring and is in great shape.
Modern medicine is pretty incredible - I hope they can put it to good use on you, and cure you of this.
Good luck.
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