I had been having sever headaches for 4 or 5 days which my Doctor diagnosed as a long migraine and prescribed Immotrex.
My wife and father-in-law took me to the emergency room on Sunday night / Monday morning where I had a cat scan. Turns out it turns out it wasn�t a true migraine after all.
The migraine was caused by a brain tumor.
The Doctor cut my head open and removed it.
He said it was the size of a silver dollar it most likely was a 2 on a scale of one to 4 for malignancy...with 1's not getting further treatment. But I think I�m going to get radiation treatment. And the preliminary pathology offers a good prognosis but the Doctor form the emergency room, who is on of the best in So Cal, is sending the results to the Mayo Clinic to be finalized.
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Ouch... how are you coping? Feel better and drink lots of non-alcoholic fluids.
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So, do you feel any different after brain surgery? I bet you're pissed that you won't be able to use the "I have a headache" excuse to escape your husbandly duties anymore. And scared that they secretly implanted some sort of FBI listening device in your head.
(Kidding, of course. )
Hang in there!
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It was a Republican plot.
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To pick his brain? B)
Best of luck, J.
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FUUUCK! Wiz, you bastard! I was gonna use that joke!
Holy Jumpin' Jellybean! Glad you caught it (scary as I'm sure it is for you- new baby and all). Radiation treatments have come a looong way in recent years- the old days of scary rad-sickness are mostly over, so dont get sick(er) with worry over that.
I guess you have something to really be thankful for tomorrow, right?
So: Will they let you keep the piece of brain they cut out? (a Simpsons joke)
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quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Crap! Lucky the did the scan! Some might have just turned you away! Hoping all the best Jay! Where was the tumour? I guess it wasn't deep in?
The odd thing
As I understand where it was it was somewhere just behind the right eye... I don�t remember much about what happened about the procedure at all.
I don�t remember getting the cat scan, I remember something about my pants and then waking up in the ICU with someone asking me what my wife�s name was.
And me thinking, why do you want to know?
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Once again the Bush Administration is worse than I had imagined, even though I thought I had already taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is invariably worse than I can imagine. ~Brad DeLong
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Glad it was caught, ggod luck with treatments.
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Are you okay? I mean, emotionally? There have been a few times that I've been sent in for testing to check for a brain tumor in the last year, and just testing alone scared me to death. I can't imagine what you've gone through.....
You'll be in my prayers, and I'm thinking of you... I'm here for ya is there's anything I can do for you....
~LOA
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Sorry- the image of Zombie Jay just sprang to mind.
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