Chris had his 6 month follow-up MRI and appointment. His tumor has grown a bit (not significantly though only a few mm). So they will be doing another in 6 months and if it’s still growing he will be doing radiation. His tumor is very low grade so while it’s concerning, it’s not aggressive.
Today we went to his Neurology appointment and we took a “field trip” to neurosurgery the next floor up. Roller has a massive lump near his surgical site, we noticed it a few weeks ago and I’ve been trying to talk him into getting scans done. Neurosurgery said “go to the ER and get scans done.” So he finally went!
After waiting many hours, and a CT scan they figured out he has a spinal leak, he was sent home and on Monday we call his neurosurgeons and figure out what’s next.
Today he was working with PT and will continue after he gets home. But by the time I left to take care of Iverson he was walking on his own and joking around about everything. I left right when they were wheeling him down to an MRI.
The MRI looked good. Since they couldn’t take out the whole tumor without cutting into that main blood vessel they showed how small his Neurosurgeon was able to get it which looks like it was 2.1cm X 0.9 cm. Beyond that, everything looks on track for a person who had surgery 24 hours ago.
He’s doing so good that he gets to come home tomorrow
Chris did well, no transfusion no issues.
Tumor was growing in the membrane and connected to the bone and to the main blood vessel on top of the head. It had been there so long that it was growing its own vessels.
They took out the bone and removed the tumor as much as possible without issues with the main blood vessel.
They sent the tumor to pathology, installed a titanium plate with a cementish coverage, to meld with the bone. He’s still in recovery from the anesthesia.
He will be getting another MRI tomorrow to show how it’s healing.
Roller’s Update 