Thank you Thank you my dear sweet friends!! You are the Greatest and have made me feel better!! This is so hard. I talked with my son earlier. He had his hearing test today and he has problems with speech recognition and low tones. He has no tinnitus just hearing loss. Does this happen with AN's? I know I have pretty bad tinnitus and my loss is high tones. He may have a meningioma?? I again ask him to question this Dr about how many surgeries he had done and to make sure he was comfortable with him. I told him I wanted someone with experience operating on my baby
(even if he is 34)
.....he said one of his friends who is a Dr said this is the doc he wanted but I am still skeptical as I have never heard of him and do not know anyone he has done surgery on. I googled him and the only thing I found was one patient who said he saved her life and even though she had complications he was there with her each step of the way....I don't like "complications" and I know that you could still have them with even the best Dr's, I guess just a mother's concern. I want the "BEST" for him. Thank you Sheryl for the concern and the suggestion about the posts. I think I will copy a few of them and give them to him and then I will back off and pray for the best...... Jim, as always thank you for your wise advice, your advice is one that I want to print for him. It's funny you mentioned gall bladder surgery though, I had gall bladder surgery in November and thought that it would be just a simple surgery. I didn't check this Dr out as again I thought this was a simple surgery. He cut my bile duct and after coming home I was in intense pain, ended up in the ER for 5 hours and transported by ambulance to a hospital in Charleston SC an hour and a half away to have a stint put in and was there for 4 days. It was the worst pain and I wasn't sure for awhile that night if I would make it....I guess any type of surgery can go wrong. I have learned that I want to check out any surgeon that does any type of surgery on anyone in my family! My husband had his trigimimal neuralgia surgery at MUSC in Charleston with Dr Sunil Patel, who I did research and who is an excellent neurosurgeon. He had very good results and we are very thankful! Again.....thank you all!! I appreciate you all so much!! and Kay....thank you so much for the phone call and the pep talk!! I love my AN friends!!
Glenda
