My Brother's Tumor--what we now know.

[binaryalchemist]

I don't have the name of what it is--but here's what his text told me:
It is most likely benign---but it has to come out---and he's had it since before he was born. It is apparently something extremely rare--the doctor who will do the surgery actually TEACHES about these tumors at Johns Hopkins. Basically, skin cells wound up inside his brain--a malformation during fetal development, just like I have some Endometrial tissue inside my bladder and possibly my kidneys. That it has grown to such a large size is alarming--BUT  he is in the hands of one of the world's authority on this time of brain turmor. They are going to wait about 2 months before going in--they want to monitor it for growth. I'll know more when we talk tonight...I had already been told that it was a very rare type of tumor and that's why they brought in the third doctor. There are risks. Serious ones. But it's easier to face the devil you know than the devil in the dark.

Comments

[night-owl-9.livejournal.com]

"But it's easier to face the devil you know than the devil in the dark."

Very true. I couldn't agree more.

Sending my prayers <3

*hugs*

[binaryalchemist.livejournal.com]

Thanks dear. It helps more than you realize...

[sexkitten426.livejournal.com]

It sounds like he's in good hands. It's good that he has found someone so knowledgeable about something so rare.

[binaryalchemist.livejournal.com]

THAT is the amazing part. When he texted me about this and told me about the credentials of the doctor it was an answer to my prayers--which was for CLARITY and guidance that the right doctor takes care of him. That is EXACTLY what had to happen and I am so grateful it has.

Re: When I find myself in times of trouble...

[binaryalchemist.livejournal.com]

Thanks, love--I was going to call you later, but I'm still trying to get hold of Dale. I feel strangely calm--knowing is better than not knowing.

[elledesu.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

At least ya'll know what it is now, and that they can treat it.

[binaryalchemist.livejournal.com]

And that he is in the best of all possible hands. If it had grown when he was an infant or child or even a teenager he never would have made it--but now he's good much better odds and I feel...okay....for some reason.