Surgery...

Damm , hang in there. The bride might have to get that done too, at first they wanted to stretch the esophagus but we want them to go in and look at it first to prove what was up! As long as they don't do a complete Cashechopathy, which is total removal of cash from a patients wallet and rather a partial Cashechopathy we'll be fine! Have a speedy recovery
 
Vox AC30 said:
Damm , hang in there. The bride might have to get that done too, at first they wanted to stretch the esophagus but we want them to go in and look at it first to prove what was up! As long as they don't do a complete Cashechopathy, which is total removal of cash from a patients wallet and rather a partial Cashechopathy we'll be fine! Have a speedy recovery
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With the wife's it was initially done observationally rather than pathologically so she was diagnosed with GERD but didnt actually have it. Her swallowing issues were caused by the brain tumor, we think.
Next scope 3 yrs later and another doc foumd no signs at all of Barretts. Go figure. So yes I think prove what is happening first.
 
Good luck Chris, positive vibes sending your way!
Acid Reflux is very uncomfortable.
I had it 6 or so years ago for a while; treated it with meds but also learned to manage the stress in my life better, most of the cause.
Coincidentally, (or not) that was around the time I started learning guitar, actually after it was mostly under control.
I did not start playing as part of the stress management program.
Just now it occurs me, looking back I know for sure it helped a lot, because it helps now.

I wont make any comments about stretching a wife's esophagus, but man that is spot on ripe for some off color humor.
 
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@Cadorman
Good luck with your procedure!
I never got fixed, but had surgery on my nuts decades ago, back in the 20th century.
That sounds really weird.

Anyway, I was experiencing an ache that would become really intense and painful.
Diagnosed as testicular torsion; my nut spin in the sac. I didnt know I was playing "spin the nut". I have spun a bearing before, but, well.....
So, the Doc goes in and tethers them to the sac, like a docked hot air balloon.
Said it could really impact my sperm count, but we had no problems as my 2 grown children are testament to that.

Same recovery, ice, little pain meds and a nut strap.

Somehow this crosses ideas imagery with a Well-Hung strap!! (you gotta use the hypen!!)
 
Jethro Rocker said:
The wife needed no radiation for her benign tumor, meningioma. Was yours in a difficult spot or really large? Hers was in a terrible spot but she (neurosurgeon) got about 75% out.
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Mine was an oligiodendroglioma just above the frontal hypothalamus. It was in a ventricle (fluid sack). It caused hydrocephalus. It was squishing my brain. Most doctors wanted to go all the way through the side of my brain. My doc went through the corpus collosum (connection between brain halves). He separated the fibers. No brain matter was injured. The corpus collosum wasn't cut at all. Very modern for 1985.

He didn't get it all, hence the radiation.

It was above my brain stem. If you want to shoot someone, aim there.

(I was a graduate student in biology. I have all the credits for a phd. I can give an hour explanation of the whole thing).
 
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Chubbles said:
Mine was an oligiodendroglioma just above the frontal hypothalamus. It was in a ventricle (fluid sack). It caused hydrocephalus. It was squishing my brain. Most doctors wanted to go all the way through the side of my brain. My doc went through the corpus collosum (connection between brain halves). He separated the fibers. No brain matter was injured. The corpus collosum wasn't cut at all. Very modern for 1985.

He didn't get it all, hence the radiation.

It was above my brain stem. If you want to shoot someone, aim there.

(I was a graduate student in biology. I have all the credits for a phd. I can give an hour explanation of the whole thing).
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Interesting! A tumor right inside a ventricle. Didn't know that could happen. You get a shunt afterwards at all? Sounds very high tech for 1985. Not to clutter up the thread but...

The boss's was a right angle cerebello pontine tumor that was compressing the brainstem so it had to go. Partially involved with the cavernous sinus amd half wrapped around the internal carotid. Because of the complexity of the area 50% would have been fine. As it has not grown since, no Gamma knife raditation. Normal radiation is too wide for this.
There was a direct path thru the right ear (translabyrinthe) so she is now deaf in that ear but better chance of more removal plus less brain injury. Used what she calls a brain GPS system - using MRI the team worked with the 3d scan of her brain as you cannot get right into there. What procedures they do on the scan are done to her head for real. Very high tech stuff, fascinating. Had a brain wave expert etc there.

Total success, they did slightly irritate the trigeminal nerve so some numbness on right side of face but no drooping or anything. Had to get a VP shunt a year later for hydrocephalus.
Spemt 17 days in hospital and came home with a walker. Ditched it after about a week. Still has some balance issues.
Remarkable procedure. To give you guys an idea of where that is...

We were very lucky. 3-s2.0-B9780323653770000155-f15-01-9780323653770.jpg
 
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