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Home From The Hospital TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Sun, 09/10/2006 - 18:29Topic: Surgery and Devices
Had my surgery Weds out of the hosptial today(Sunday). Doctors told me I did as well as I could possbiliy done. They removed a 6mm tumor or imflamtion plus 2mm around it. Headaches are deffeinetely a problem but things get better every single day. Still in some pain but I haven't had any seizure actvity since the surgery. Even trade to me. I have 25 small staples and will be taken out next monday and I will also get the pathology report back that will tell me exactly what it was. Doctor said it was more of an imflamation than a tumor. Just wanted to bring closure to this thread. I am feeling great and the positives by far exceed the negatives at this point! Thanks for your prayers!
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Re: Re: Home From The Hospital TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by szusd037 on Mon, 2006-09-11 - 10:11
Kelly G. the experience leading up to the surgery is very testing. I had to postpone my senior year of college for it just to remove a small "lesion" in my right temporal lobe that was growing. I just had to share my story on here b/c b4 I was about to go in I wanted to hear from someone else that they had the same experience and came out alright. So thats me telling you, it will be ok. Before the surgery I told my surgeon that if this was succesful that I would be naming my first son after him. Needless to say my sons name will be Miguel Szush. As soon as I awoke from the surgery and realized I was ok I pointed to the surgeon gave him the thumbs up and told him he was the man! Hoping your experience goes as well as mine.
Also I was not a spiritual person until this experience, that was until I felt the power prayer. Just a suggestion, embrace it if you feel it, it's ok. It is a way to cope. I thanks everyone who has prayed for me and praise god for giving me strength. So I will pray for you Kelly hoping you accept it and ask god to use it! Good Luck
Re: Home From The Hospital TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by maggie on Sun, 2006-09-10 - 22:12
szusd~I'm so happy to hear that your surgery went well and that your home and feeling better.No seizures...how exciting!Please be sure to let us know the pathology report.I'm still praying for you.Good luck and God bless
Re: Home From The Hospital TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by Kelly G. on Sun, 2006-09-10 - 19:41
You know, thats wonderful. I am really happy that you're doing so well. With my surgery just 2 1/2 weeks away, it makes me feel great, too. My seizure-causing cyst is 11 mm big, in my left temporal lobe. Waiting to be removed. :) I had an anxiety attack this morning, on my way to work and I had to pull over in the car. I just heard this sad song and it triggered some emotions, got me crying and breathing real fast and getting dizzy, I was almost hyperventilating. I've had one anxiety attack before, maybe, in the far past. This is weird. Then, to top it off, I had a small seizure right before my shift was over at work this afternoon. I'm just getting stressed. I'm getting scared. But reading stories like yours helps to make me feel better. I know it will be alright, but it's still scary as sh**. But now I feel better. I hope you do, too. My surgery is on Oct. 4th. Talk to you soon....Kelly