Skull surgery

[LoriE]

I've been reading the posts here for 3 years and everyone has been so helpful and knowledgeable. Now I have a question. A CT scan of my head showed a raspberry sized mass inside my mastoid bone. My surgeon removed the mass, which was found to have no malignant cells, but said it was surrounded by "abnormal bone". He drilled away (ew!) all of the abnormal bone that he could without getting too close to nerves and my carotid artery. He said it didn't look like cancer, but "you can't biopsy bone". He said that cancer normally erodes bone, not add bone. He said now we wait. I'm really not good at waiting! Has anyone had anything like this?