Holly and I drove downtown to meet with Dr. Munoz today. He painted quite a different picture than Dr Sani did. Dr. Sani was planning on opening a 4" square, taking out as much as he can and doing the biopsy to see what it was. Dr Munoz plans on opening a 2" diameter hole, removing a some portion, and going from there.
Dr Munoz is concerned about the effect the tumor is having on the surrounding brain tissue and wants to analyze this before deciding if any of the brain tissue needs to be removed.
Initially, this was very shocking for me. Dr Sani made it sound like an open and shut case. Dr Munoz was much more reserved about what the root issue is. After talking this out with several people (again, thank you everyone that listens) This may seem like a more drawn out process, but should be better in the long run.
Thank you Jean for lining this doctor/hospital up for me. I am sure it will improve the outcome.
So the general plan is:
11/22 Monday - Check into Rush 3PM or so
11/23 Tuesday - Surgery/ICU
11/24 Recovery / Possibly go home
11/25 Home
Then the Biopsy results should be back late the next week (11/29) and Dr Munoz will decide where to go from there.
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