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| Wed, 12-31-2008 - 12:25pm |
Hello all. I'm new here, but I hope someone might be able to help me.
My daughter (28 years old) has a slow growing, low-grade glioma in her brain. The mass is the size of an orange. The surgeon gave her the option to go in and biopsy it or just surgically remove it and then biopsy it. She chose to remove it and the surgery is scheduled for this Friday. The doctor's office has not been very forthcoming with information and I want to have a good list of questions when we get to talk to the surgeon. So far I've come up with:
How long will be her recovery time be?
What things can she do and not do?
Any particular diet?
Any special treatment for the surgery site?
How long will it take to get the results of the biopsy?
I want to ask questions specifically about the tumor like what exactly is it, is it benign, what type of treatment will she need to undergo, what the survival rate is, etc. but those types of questions will have to wait until the biopsy I imagine. Can anyone think of any other general post-surgery type questions? I know the hospital stay will be 3 days with the first day in intensive care.
Thanks
Terri

Hi Terri.