Below, in To blog or not to blog, I wrote that one of the reasons I'd stopped blogging was that I'd developed a serious distractibility.
I'm hoping that the good news embedded in some recent bad news is that the reason for that has been discovered and can, perhaps, be eliminated.
I have a benign meningioma.
I knew this seven years ago, but at that time it was so small that the neurosurgeon said it wasn't worth worrying about. Frankly, I'd forgotten almost everything about that episode of strange headaches except the extreme unpleasantness of the MRI.
It's bigger now (at least 10x according to my memory of the first MRI which has been destroyed by the hospital due to storage space problems and the written report did not include any reference to size except small), but it's still small (< 2.0 cm), at least according to one neurosurgeon I've seen. The other... well, he says it's too big for Gamma Knife surgery. I'm going to see about the TomoTherapy recommended by the other neurologist as soon as the official insurance referral comes through. Also, one says it is near the optic nerve and the other says it is attached to the superior sagittal sinus.
What should I expect from a third opinion - that it's adjacent to a kidney?
The seizure I had was small too. One of my roommates at McCurdy (back when it was a boarding school) had epilepsy and this was nothing compared to the seizures she had.
I do not want to experience another one, no matter how "small" it was.
Is it too much to hope that getting this thing out of my brain will alleviate the distractibility and other little annoyances that I've noticed over the past year or so?
