Pictures

 So these are my scary pictures. The one above my writing is the one they took on 9/11. To orientate you, in the front you can see my eyeballs and then a little of my gray batter. In the back, you can see the cerebellum which is more layered then the other stuff. On right in the middle on the right side I the mass. It is about as big as my eyeball. It is pushing into the mid brain and pressing some of the fluid in a different place (the forth ventricle is an irregular triangle area). This is what I saw at first and scared me A LOT.

Now this is the MRI that was done as soon as surgery was done. You can see the light outside area of the mass, but now the middle is gone. That was exactly what was supposed to happen.  The surgeon debulked it, so that is a few months the tumor sheath will be away from the brain and it will  be easy to do radiation on.

This is what they needed to do, and they did it and I am grateful.

My head hurts a little more today, but I think I am not sleeping as upright as I need to. Also, I am still weaning on the steroid.  My big plan today is too take a shower.  I think I can achieve it.