Hi everyone,
Just wanted to say thank you for everyone's responses and help for the past couple of months. I had surgery last week in CA at the House Ear Institute. I feel pretty good. Here's my success story:
I am from Florida and flew too LA last monday. On monday I spent all day going to the different doctors and doing the pretest. Tuesday morning I saw Dr. De La Cruz again and was admitted into the hospital around 11am. My surgery lasted around 3.5-4 hours and the doctros were able to preserve my hearing and facial nerve. They unfortunately had to also remove the balance nerve on my left side and were able to remove the 1.5cm acoustic neuroma and used the middle fossa approach. The doctors woke me up that night in ICU to make sure I could smile and talk to me and to see my family. I was in ICU until wednesday evening then sent to a private room until saturday morning and am staying at their facility in the Seton Guest Center. The doctors and nurses were great the facility is great and it is definitely something I recommend. I was diagnosed with the AN in May of this year after having had a sudden hearing loss but still had my hearing before going into surgery and doctor's were able to preserve it. It's been a great experience here and luckily the stitches come off next week and I get to go back home. I still tend to loose my balance a little when walking and get extremely fatigued from doing just about anything even being here in front of the computer for too long but that's all normal things the doctor's said would go away after a couple of weeks. If anyone has any questions please feel free to write and I'll get back to you. I know it's a very difficult experience to be diagnosed with a brain tumor but everything will turn out just great.
Again thanks everyone,
Jessica
