Location, Location, Location
When it comes to brains, as with real estate, it is all about location. That is one of my motivations for starting this blog: One’s experience of meningioma and craniotomy will differ widely depending on where the tumor is located, so firsthand accounts help sketch out the range of possibilities. To illustrate just how different the experiences can be, consider this: · I am one of five people I know who has been diagnosed with a meningioma. · Three of the five of us have had to have the tumor removed. (“If it grows, it goes.”) · Only one of the five ever had any symptoms. · That person went from diagnosis to surgery in four days . · The other craniotomate went ten years between diagnosis and surgery. · With the three ...