The neurosurgeon called it glioblastoma.
The radiologist affirmed it was glioblastoma.
--Glioblastoma is the brain cancer tumor that they diagnosed for my mother last Friday from her MRI results. Glioblastoma has about a 12-18 month life expectancy after successful surgery.
And today was her surgery. I called my dad after the surgery was ended this evening, and asked how it went.
My dad strangely put my husband on the phone to explain things (my husband went up to help them thru the pre-op and all).
It wasn't glioblastoma! There wasn't a tumor there at all!
Instead, it is (the neurologist had said) an extremely rare kind of presentation of Multiple Sclerosis in the brain. Neither this neursurgeon nor the anasthesiologists had seen anything like it before, and they are going to research how many other surgeons have ever found what they did. They were very surprised.
The prognosis for MS and glioblastoma are worlds apart. My mother is 64, and will be able to deal with MS for many years with medication. There is no such grace with glioblastoma.
Technically, it is not a miracle. But my dad calls it a miracle, and my dad's opinion counts for a lot (to me!).
My dad says they are knee-deep in confetti at the hospital right now, and stunned with joy.
May I say it?.....
Halleluia!!!!!
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