dear hruss,i tried to find my very 1st post but it's gone so i will try to remember this stuff.
i was at work one day and started getting headaches,along with these headaches i would get blurry vision in my left eye only,in my left ear i would hear this woosh,woosh sound,then all of a sudden i would start stumbling,granted these symptoms would only last for about 3 minutes and then everything was normal. needless to say i kept blowing it off as no big deal.
earlier that year my family dr. had put me on bp meds which i quit taking so i thought all of this was related to blood pressure,so when i went to see my dr. she said that she did not think it had to do with bp,so she sent me in for a catscan,that was when they found a 8cm mass,when they told me that i passed clean out,i then woke up in the E R,and then i was rushed into surgery, after a 17 1/2 hr surgery ,and a 3 day induced coma i spent 15 days in icu this is when i met dr.Chang [miracle man in my eye] anyway to make a long story short i spent 15 more days in in-patient re-hab in a wheelchair,graduated to a walker,then i spent 5 or 6 months in out-patient re-hab and started walking on my own and driving after 6 months,i returned to work full time 7 months to the day.
all in all i have about 27 hrs worth of surgery in a 4 month window.
17 1/2 hr tumor removal via translab,8 hour 7-12 nerve jump,and 2 hour eye weight and stitch in the corner of my eye,and yes, hair started falling out.
it is the people on this forum that helped me carry through. i had the surgery done at plano presby in plano texas[suburb of dallas]. most people on this forum get to research thier dr. i was fortunate to get the one i did and am actually glad it went the way it did because i would have drove myself crazy wondering if i had picked the right guy,make sense? my next mri is 1 year away,but i plan on sliding in there around 7 months.
