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LTL Surgery February 21
Fri, 01/26/2007 - 16:05Topic: Surgery and Devices
Hi everybody. To my friends out there I wanted to let you know that I have finally finished all of the testing and they are going to perform the surgery next month to remove part of my hippocampus in my left temporal lobe. The neurosurgeon says I have an 80 percent + chance so I am keeping my fingers crossed. I just had the WADA performed on Tuesday and it was nothing that I feared it would be (I was up and around that afternoon). Thanks for all of your support
Dawn ;-)
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Re: LTL Surgery February 21
Submitted by dmh on Mon, 2007-02-05 - 12:04
For those interested, the hospital called me on Friday to inform me that my WADA test didn't take and I have to go back in tomorrow (2-6-07) and have it done over. I realize it wasn't that bad the first time around but that didn't mean I wanted another one :-P My doctor called me this morning and said that something went wrong when they tried putting my brain to sleep on my bad side at the beginning of the procedure and I couldn't perform the test correctly so they are going to do a more detailed procedure tomorrow.
Re: Re: LTL Surgery February 21
Submitted by gitgirl on Tue, 2007-02-06 - 20:07
These things take time--God's time!!!
Hang in there.
My prayers are with you.
Peace,
Julie
Re: Re: LTL Surgery February 21
Submitted by dmh on Mon, 2007-02-05 - 11:54
Thanks ;-)