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tenai98

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2 yr post surgery check up
« on: March 23, 2011, 10:52:18 am »
Booger came back stable...no new growth...still sitting at 1.3 cms.....so until he decides to grow, I do nothing....watch and wait...doc is still debating whether to go for MRI in another 8 months or wait a yr...He'll notify me ;D ;D
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14mmX11mmX11mm left ear
TRANSLAB 04/07/09 2cms at time of surgery
Dr. Benoit and Schramm, Ottawa Civic Campus
SSD ,some facial numbness
Baha surgery sept 22/09
residual tumor 13mmX7mmX8mm
2016 new growth.  25mmX21mmX22mm
cyberknife on June 7

cindyj

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Re: 2 yr post surgery check up
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2011, 11:12:30 am »
Great news, Jo!  So, enjoy your Spring!  Are you going to St. Augustine this year?  Or are you already down there?  Was there a couple of months ago and thought of our visit at the mall prior to your surgery :)

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rt side 1.5 cm - Translab on 11/07/08 Dr. Friedman & Dr. Schwartz of House Ear Institute,
feeling great!

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Jim Scott

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Re: 2 yr post surgery check up
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2011, 03:11:34 pm »
Jo ~

'No growth' are two of the sweetest words a person diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma and in 'watch-and-wait' mode (observation) can ever hear.  Congratulations!

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4.5 cm AN diagnosed 5/06.  Retrosigmoid surgery 6/06.  Follow-up FSR completed 10/06.  Tumor shrinkage & necrosis noted on last MRI.  Life is good. 

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Re: 2 yr post surgery check up
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2011, 09:20:05 am »
Jo,
Yay! What great news. Jim is so right :D
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Re: 2 yr post surgery check up
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2011, 09:59:41 am »
Oh Jo .....

So glad your recurring tumor is holding.  Unbeknownst to me (they kept calling it "probable scar tissue" of unknown size to me), mine was apparently holding at 1.0 cm until my most recent MRI, when it had grown 3 mm from the previous MRI a year earlier.

I hope and pray yours holds forever at its current size ..... and remember, most do!!

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Right MVD for trigeminal neuralgia, 1994, Pittsburgh, PA
Left retrosigmoid 2.6 cm AN removal, February, 2008, Duke U
Tumor regrew to 1.3 cm in February, 2011
Translab AN removal, May, 2011 at HEI, Friedman & Schwartz
Oticon Ponto Pro abutment implant at same time; processor added August, 2011

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Re: 2 yr post surgery check up
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2011, 10:06:12 am »
Great news Jo. I hope it continues this way.

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GK on April 23rd 2008 for 2.9 cm AN at Toronto Western Hospital. Subsequent MRIs showed darkening initially, then growth. Retrosigmoid surgery on April 26th, 2011 with Drs. Akagami and Westerberg at Vancouver General Hospital. Graduallly lost hearing after GK and now SSD but no other issues.

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Re: 2 yr post surgery check up
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2011, 12:54:18 pm »
Congratulations.

Sure hope it stays that way.

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Re: 2 yr post surgery check up
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2011, 07:37:44 am »
Good news, Jo.

I'm with Kenneth - sure hope it stays that way.

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