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Watching a Meningioma Brain Tumor

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@colleenyoung

Hi @angela66, welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. What an amazing story. While you don't know that name of the Mayo neurosurgeon who kindly helped you get a second opinion in your home country, I will share your story with the department to show the impact of going above and beyond. Watch and wait can be the right course of treatment. In your case, your instincts were right. It was time for action and thank goodness you took it. How old is your granddaughter now? Did you have any treatment after surgery?

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angela66 | @angela66 | Sep 6, 2019

Hello Colleen
My grand daughter is almost 4 the light of my life
As for treatment not directly but have had three laser surgeries in each eye due to early onset of glaucoma caused by the inflammation and pressure of the tumour when it was present
Additionally a few follow up appointments with Neuro psychology for memory issues and spatial issues also as a result of the tumour when it was present but otherwise no other treatment. I go every two years for a MRI follow up and so far all’s clear
Very thankful and grateful and will forever be grateful for the call I made to Mayo Clinic and the advice I was given

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