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Hi @lisalucier No I haven’t spoken with him yet. How am I feeling emotionally through all of this…It was complete shock when I found out about them. They found two and I had a surgery for those. I woke up to find out that they found four more. Then the second surgery, the craniotomy was done eight weeks ago. He said he could get three, possibly four then. But he only got one bc of where they were located. So now I’m facing this third surgery. He said he should be able to get the last three. But I’m not having much hope of that since it didn’t work out to get the amount he said in the first two. But I’d rather him be cautious than playing all Nilly Willy up in my head.
My emotions have been crazy. So nervous before surgery and then instead of healing and it be treated and I move on, I always remember that I’m healing only to have it done again and again. I’m depressed a lot. My doctor says it’s very uncommon for someone to have six. And I’m worried that this will be the thing that takes me out. Multiple, treated and yet to be treated. The chance of them leaking, rupturing, etc, my chance is times six. Also dealing with the issues I’ve stated having post op.
For this one, he plans to go in through a catheter into the right side of my brain and treat those. Then back out to around heart level and go into the left side to try and get that one. I’m scared once again. Working in both sides of my brain at once doesn’t sound too good. Sorry for the book. I’ll stop now 😊 And thank you for asking!
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@lisa930. That is a lot on your plate. I'm so sorry. As I mentioned to you before, I also had a craniotomy, exactly 2 years ago today. (But for a meningioma 1/16th on an inch from my optic nerve. Two doctors told me it was inoperable but my rock star neurosurgeon at UCSF removed it successfully.) At my 3 month MRI check up post surgery I was informed I also had an almost six mm. aneurysm. I couldn't deal with another procedure so soon so delayed doing anything about it for almost a year. The new neurosurgeon (at UCSF one specializes in meningiomas and another in aneurysms) said the location of my aneurysm was not easy to get to so he suggested coiling. I am writing to tell you I had the cerebral angiogram that you referenced, where they threaded a catheter over the top of my heart (I think over the top) to coil the aneurysm that was on the left side of my brain. At UCSF they try thread the catheter through your wrist if you have easy to get to arteries. (Something like that.) At any rate, I didn't have to go through my groin. All in all, it was a pretty simple procedure. I wouldn't be afraid of it (like I was-stressed out for a year until I had it done) I only spent one night in the hospital. If I remember correctly, I think the total time for the procedure was about 3 1/2 hours. I was angry and depressed, as you are, after learning that I had yet another surgical procedure to go through. Another bump in the road we call life but you got this. You're going to come out on the other side and be glad it's over with.