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Dear Ali -
Glad to hear from you again as I enjoyed your articles in your previous posts. (I was a champion swimmer in Jr. High and High School [still have my shoebox of medals and ribbons], but no open water swimming except for recreation in lakes and the mighty Columbia and Snake River shores here in eastern Washington State.)
So hard to hear of your brain mets again from someone with so much spirit and life force. At the outset my brain mets seem pretty easy to deal with, but these things can take many twists and turns, and I am not going into that at this point with my family and friends. One step at a time.
Wish I had some kind of new protocol to offer for your situation.
Why do they want to wait to do Gamma Knife? To see if a few more pop up and then you have too many?? This is not the logic I have been hearing from my doctors in my case during this week of intense consultations.
If you can now swim 1000 meters (the fact that this is well over a 1/2 mile is not lost on me), then you should be strong enough after your last mishap with the docs house for the radiosurgery. I just hope they have the latest helmet and contrast solutions for the best look at all the little devils.
Press on with the Gamma Knife as you do with the swimming!
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