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Treatment Options => Microsurgical Options => Topic started by: anissa on March 29, 2009, 03:14:03 pm

Title: Length of surgery?
Post by: anissa on March 29, 2009, 03:14:03 pm: This is basically trivia as I get ready for my surgery on Wednesday. Thanks for putting up with me and my questions. :)

How long was your surgery?
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Post by: Jim Scott on March 29, 2009, 03:51:21 pm: Anissa ~

O.K., I'll play. :) I had retrosigmoid. No complications. Just under 9 hours. Nice nap! :D

Jim
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Post by: mimoore on March 29, 2009, 05:02:43 pm: 12 hours
Michelle :P
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Post by: nteeman on March 29, 2009, 05:09:05 pm: 8.5 hours but it seemed like only an hour or so to me when I woke up. It threw my whole sense of what time of day it was totally off.

It did not take long to regain that ability. ;)

Neal
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Post by: cindyj on March 29, 2009, 05:14:12 pm: 5 hour translab...next
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Post by: Kathy M on March 29, 2009, 05:20:05 pm: 8 hours, retrosigmoid procedure. Good question!!!
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Post by: texsooner on March 29, 2009, 05:27:54 pm: 12 hours...retrosigmoid.

Patrick
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Post by: Syl on March 29, 2009, 05:46:21 pm: 5 hrs--retrosigmoid. My tumor peeled right off the nerve maiking it a relatively fast procedure.

Syl
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Post by: sgerrard on March 29, 2009, 05:51:24 pm: I didn't have surgery, so I will go with the average so far, which is 8 hours. What's the prize? ;D

Steve
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Post by: EJTampa on March 29, 2009, 06:23:08 pm: 4 hours, retrosigmoid.

Ernie
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Post by: Kim Zingale on March 29, 2009, 06:40:29 pm: 9 hours, retrosigmoid

Kim
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Post by: krbonner on March 29, 2009, 06:49:26 pm: 11.5 hours, translab

Katie
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Post by: moe on March 29, 2009, 10:46:04 pm: 11 hours, trans lab.
Maureen
p.s. -surgery is coming in a couple of days. Will keep you in prayer. You are in great hands!
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Post by: wendysig on March 30, 2009, 12:55:56 am: 7 1/2 hours - translab.

Good luck on Wednesday.

Wendy
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Post by: SML on March 30, 2009, 07:34:26 am: 9 1/2 hours - Retrosigmoid (was told it was sticky)

Scarlett

Ask for an ice pack for behind your neck afterwards. My neck was quite sore from being in that position for so long, but I found the ice releived some of that.

Your going to do great, I'm sending you a big hug from across the miles... can you feel it? :-*
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Post by: Sonja on March 30, 2009, 08:41:12 am: Tranlab and BAHA inplant - 6.5 hours. Tumor was wrapped around facial nerve. Well wishes and many blessing.

Sonja
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Post by: leapyrtwins on March 30, 2009, 08:59:45 am: Retrosigmoid 7.5 hours.

Jan
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Post by: DLM4me on March 30, 2009, 10:41:28 am: Thanks for posting this, as I've been wondering about it too. There aren't many middle fossa replies, which I'd particularly like to see.

Anissa, I'll be thinking about you on my daughter's birthday. April 1st was a good, good day for me back when she was born, so I expect it to bring you very good luck! :)
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Post by: andrea in slc on March 30, 2009, 11:02:26 am: 7 1/2 hours, translab. I was told afterwards that the tumor was a "bit of a challenge" for the neurosurgeon because of its stickiness. Great! ::)

You will do fine Anissa! You'll be asleep the whole time and it will fly by. Your husband, on the other hand, will be the one pacing and biting his nails!

I remember looking up at the lights in the OR and fading into sleep, then waking up what felt like minutes later to some LOUD rocking music (glad they had fun while operating on me) and a really sore arm.
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Post by: lori67 on March 30, 2009, 11:57:28 am: 9 hour translab for me.

The way I look at it, they can take as long as they need to do the job right.

You'll do great.
Lori
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Post by: Dog Lover on March 30, 2009, 08:23:38 pm: 5 hrs. Mid Fossa. (not sticky)

Cathy
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Post by: Kaybo on March 30, 2009, 09:03:31 pm: 14 hours - translab
;D
K

*will be praying for you (& your hubby) to feel God's PEACE up until and after your surgery!*
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Post by: chocolatetruffle on March 30, 2009, 10:12:55 pm: 8 hours translab

good luck to you!!!
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Post by: anissa on March 30, 2009, 10:22:54 pm: You guys...ROCK! Lori, you are so right, take the time you need to get it right! Thank you!!!
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Post by: kenneth_k on March 30, 2009, 11:23:22 pm: Hi Anissa.

6 hours non-complicated ;D translab.

Good luck, Kenneth
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Post by: joebloggs on March 31, 2009, 02:58:59 am: 6 hour translab... you're going to rock it tomorrow!
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Post by: jtd71465 on March 31, 2009, 03:15:52 am: 3.5 hrs--retrosigmoid...no comps.

Joe-
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Post by: Patti on March 31, 2009, 07:25:28 am: 14 hrs-retro
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Post by: kathylittlejohncobb on March 31, 2009, 09:30:41 am: Andrea is so right: your loved ones feel the minutes ticking by one by one! We, on the other hand, are blissfully (?!) unaware of the time going by. :o
Kathy
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Post by: yardtick on March 31, 2009, 10:02:17 am: translab 3.5 hrs facial neuroma was debulked and very sticky....the bugger is still there!

Anne Marie
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Post by: OTO on March 31, 2009, 04:30:56 pm: Middle Fossa - 5-1/2 hours
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Post by: Sue Vogel on April 01, 2009, 07:17:41 pm: Nine hours - translab. Best sleep I've had since menopause!
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Post by: kathylittlejohncobb on April 03, 2009, 02:17:46 pm: Forgot to say my retrosigmoid was approximately 5 hours.
Kathy
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Post by: anissa on April 06, 2009, 12:17:12 pm: I guess I can add my own surgery time to me poll...

11 hours translab, way sticky on the facial nerve, persistant doctors.
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Post by: Keri on April 06, 2009, 09:20:11 pm: i think about 11 hours. in OR at around 7ish. remember waking up at 6:30pm. didn't see husband until 8:30pm (sound familiar! - just read your report).
mine stuck to my facial nerve as well. said they got it all, but have more of the facial weakness now (improving - eye is the worst part of it - smile is returning); not as hard to chew now as it was at the beginning.
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Post by: NancyMc on April 12, 2009, 09:05:25 am: 9 hours translab
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Post by: Rick Everingham on April 30, 2009, 09:21:53 am: 7 1/2 hours trans lab.
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Post by: Kate B on May 12, 2009, 09:40:05 pm: Middle Fossa at House Ear Institute--4 1/2 hours
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Post by: AMD on May 20, 2009, 08:53:05 pm: i wanna play too...... 10 hrs, sub-occipital (retrosigmoid)
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Post by: CHD63 on May 21, 2009, 07:22:41 am: Retrosigmoid - approx. 5 hours

Clarice