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11 Citation Today I started another blog ... this time it has nothing to do with painting or artists but is about the newest "adventure" in my life - the discovery of a brain tumour. Luckily for me the initial diagnosis is a meningioma, - lucky in the sense that they are usually benign, but at the moment the future is far less certain than a week ago. And it is quite daunting .... I mean both the diagnosis and trying to write about it!!, technorati.com
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1 Citation 7 months ago today I was knocked out by a bunch of drugs, had my head cracked open and was about halfway through my 10 hour craniotomy . Today, I've dropped of my kids at daycare, come to work, had my morning tea with my favourite colleague (this is our morning ritual and quite likely required for our mental health), have started to organize the next German Parents' Pub Night, and have been beavering away. I'll continue to do what I normally do on a work day, or rather, a day that starts yet, technorati.com
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1 Citation A meningioma is a tumor that arises from the meninges ? the membranes that surround your brain and spinal cord. Meningiomas occur most commonly in women. Most people who develop a meningioma are adults. But a meningioma can occur at any age, including childhood. A meningioma doesn?t always require immediate treatment. A small meningioma that causes no significant signs and symptoms may be monitored over time for signs of growth. A meningioma that never grows may never require treatment., technorati.com
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1 Citation What a strange situation! .... here I am looking, sounding and behaving exactly as I usually do (well, mostly) and yet I'm harbouring this little stranger! It's almost like being newly pregnant - who to tell and when? Will everything be all right? Plus the realisation that life will never be quite the same again. Telling people Who to tell is actually quite a difficult one. Of course it goes without saying that John and the children were the first to know, plus a very small circle of friends, technorati.com
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Week 1 ........ unwelcome news 1 Citation Last Tuesday (17th March) - I received a phone call from my GP to say that a CT scan has revealed the presence of meningioma and I will soon be seen by a neurologist. My doctor was at pains to reassure me that this does NOT mean that I have "brain cancer" because a meningioma is a benign (non-malignant) tumour which grows on the outer coverings of the brain. It is also slow-growing. Starting this blog is not particularly easy and this post is probably going to be the most difficult part ab, technorati.com
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1 Citation So my craniotomy lasted 10 hours, from about 7:30 in the morning to around 5:30 at night - plus the guiding MRI and other medical stuff they did beforehand. A long day , to be sure, though maybe not the hardest one for me in this whole experience. To access the darn tumour in its midline frontal lobe position, they shaved a narrow strip of hair, and then cracked open my skull from just above the right ear to just above the left ear, a bit behind my hairline, right across the top of my head., technorati.com
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1 Citation Had you asked me 5 1/2 months ago or so, a couple of weeks after my thankfully very skilled Dr. Hotshot resected my meningioma whether I'd still be around now, let alone feeling much better than I have in a long time, I'd have been quite convinced in saying "Nope, though maybe in an institution if I'm lucky!" Hard to believe, huh? And I'm not even kidding about this. Back in the day when I was still hopped up on steroids, I spent my many wakeful hours during the night convinced I'd have to m, technorati.com
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1 Citation August 26th, 2008, early in the morning, our little monkeys safely tucked away at their grandparents' place in the country side. Just P and me, still feeling like we'd been hit by a truck, silently together, both trying to be strong for the other, not knowing what was going to happen. I was fairly calm going in, but still scared out of my wits. But who wouldn't be? It's not every day you go to the hospital to have your head cracked open to try to get a brain tumour out of there. As out of it a, technorati.com
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1 Citation There it is, in all it's ugly and brutal honesty - the term used to describe any and all effects caused by brain trauma, a brain tumour, and/or treatment to get rid off it. Here I am, just over 6 months after my meningioma was surgically removed, and I'm still not (yet?) used to using this word to describe my own circumstances, or those of anyone else I've come across since I've been diagnosed. It just sounds so harsh, and I guess I haven't had enough time to digest and accept that yes, I, technorati.com
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1 Citation So last night, for the first time since surgery that I'm aware of, I had an episode of utter confusion (not sure this is the right term, but it sure didn't feel right). We were getting the kids ready for bed and Sophie had assigned me, as she is quite convinced from time to time that she runs the show, to help her with the bathroom and to brush her teeth. Bathroom got taken care off quite easily since she doesn't really need help anyway - but when it came time to brush her teeth, I brushed min, technorati.com
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