Decision on recurrance
Hi everyone,
I saw Dr. Peter Black at the Brigham today in Boston. I will have surgery either on Friday or Monday in a week. The MRI shows likely recurrance to the site of the craineotomny in May of 2004. There is a possiblity of radiation necrosis. Dr. Black thinks that necrosis is a possiblilty, but would like to take it out to be sure, because the lesion could contain some cancer cells. I'm adjusting to the situation. He will use MRI imaging while performing the surgery. The site is close to the surface in the frontal cortex, and he expects surgery to go well. I don't have to go on Decradon until the day of the surgery and he thinks I will be off it in a week. Considering the news I received last week, I feel much better about the situation now, and am just anxious to get it over with. If all goes well, he expects that I can be back in the classroom two weeks after the surgery.
I want to thank all of you that responded to my earlier post.
Barbara H.
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