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That great news Dru!
Best wishes to you both and let it continue.
Best regards, Adrian.
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Great news Dru. All the very best to both of you
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Stereotactic retrosigmoid craniotomy for petrous meningioma - bloody medicos, that's a mouthful. Try it this way:
Stereotactic: robotics, machines wired in to the MRI, microscopic surgery
Retrosigmoid: minimally invasive - keyhole surgery
Craniotomy: well most of us would get this bit "through the scull"
Petrous: I think it's the location, at the base of the scull near the brain stem (and hard to get to!)
Meningioma: tumour of the meninges which is the membrane that is around the brain. In this case the tumour clutched around three nerves but particularly the trigeminal nerve (face sensations)
Anyway the surgery went really well, all 5 hours of it, and while it seemed I had temporarily moved in to the intensive care unit Kerry was passed through to ward in not much more than 24 hours. Felt like a life time. Noisy scary places with incredible people. 3 days in ward and now, ta-dah!, she's home.
We have already realised that recovery has it's ups and downs, Kerry has done it tough during the night time with a cough that tries blow the top of her head off. And given the neurosurgeon's response, I'm not sure that is much of an over-reaction. But pain meds are back on and we are home caring for a bit. We are really chuffed she's back home. And she tends to do well during the day. :-) Plenty of sleep mostly.
We wont know about any further radiosurgery (it is stereotactic too) until pathology results are back. I imagine we will be monitoring for well, ever, no bad thing.
I don't think we'll be back on the trails for a bit - 4 to 6 weeks recovery but we'll see about 4wd in it's own time.
Kerry is on Facebook if you want to say hi. Sincere thanks to all the well wishers, I can't ever explain how much this helps.
All the best Sydney Jeep Club.
Dru'n'Kerry
(exhausted but very relieved)
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Fantastic news Dru!
Here's wishing Kerry all the very best for her ongoing speedy recovery.
Ian W.
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Hey - great news and plenty of resting for the 2 of you and the Jeep [emoji592]
Hitesh
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Great news, happy to hear all went well
Wish you a smooth and quick recovery
Cheers
Khaled
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