A month ago I
posted the results of my follow up with the eye doctor after my tumor was
removed, and the results were amazing, even by his standards. Almost all of my
peripheral vision has been restored, and still could improve more with time.
Yay! I guess such great results kind of set me up on a mountaintop about this
whole experience that it’s all over, and life is, once again, back to normal,
or as normal as my life is. Not so, my friend. Last week I had my follow up
with the neurosurgeon after my New Year’s Eve MRI, 2 months post tumor removal.
I looked at the CD they give you. It definitely looked different and that hole
was no longer full of the big white spot as you see in the picture, but I have
no idea what I’m looking at. As I sat in Dr. Sahni’s office last week waiting
for him to come in, I was imagining what he’d say:
Dr.
Sahni: Well, Miss Moore, the tumor is totally gone. Dr. Astruc says your vision
is almost completely back to normal, so unless you have any problems, I’ll see
you in a year. Nice to meet you. Good luck!
That’s not exactly how it went. It’s
nothing earth shattering, but there is still some of the tumor left. It is now
in the bottom of the cavity where my pituitary gland lives and far away from my
optic nerves, so nothing is being affected. It’s just sitting there, and it
might just sit there forever, which would be the preferred scenario, but it
could also grow back. Cue sound effect of
Boos and hissing from the crowd. Apparently it was huge! In fact, Dr. Sahni
said that many surgeons would not have removed it by the method mine was
removed, through the nasal cavity. It would have been the “movie version” of
brain surgery, shaved head, boring into the skull, through the brain stuff. As
large as it was, and given the way it was removed, the doctor could not be
overly aggressive because that could have caused some permanent damage. So, I
am sure you are wondering what happens now. Well, you are if you’re still
reading this. In 4 months I have another MRI, cha ching $$, $2400.00, to see if it has grown. If it has, we do
the whole thing all over again, or if it hasn’t, we wait, the word everybody
loves to hear. In another four months from July we do another MRI, cha ching $$, another $2400, to see if
it’s grown, if it still is just sitting there, as my grandmother used to say, like a bump on a log, we wait 6 months,
and you guessed it, another MRI. It seems Mike Wasowski just couldn’t bear to
leave his Boo. But this isn’t a Disney movie, and I would have preferred for
Mike to have just walked back into that closet and shredded my door for good!
