A non-epilectic seizure landed me in St Luke's hospital in Kansas City, MO on January 19, 2005.  After a CT scan and an MRI, the golf ball sized tumor was found in the right frontal lobe of my brain.  Luckily it was not real deep so a craniotomy was planned for that afternoon to remove it.  After 3.5 hours of surgery, the doctor exclaimed that he was happy to have been able to remove all that was visible by the human eye.  This doesn't mean it is all gone, microscopic sized cells and cells in folds of the brain could be left but no way to prove they are there or not.  Hence the reason for radiation and chemotherapy.

I can't believe that after having a craniotomy, where a chunk of my skull was removed, a person played with chop sticks in my brain, and 4 small titanium plates were used to hold the piece of bone back in my skull, that I could be released from the hospital in just 2 days.  Miracles occur every day and this is one.  God proves himself in many miraculous ways. 

I was thinking that I'm glad that this trend didn't catch on.  What do you think?  If you like it I can send you the name of my hairdresser... hehe. 

                             

 

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Doctors:

SURGERY:                Dr. Eric Flores, M.D.
                                   Kansas City Neurosurgery Group

ONCOLOGISTS:       Sarah A. Taylor, M.D.
                                    KU Med Cancer Center

RADIOLOGY:            Fen Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
                                    KU Med Center Dept of Radiation Oncology