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Watch and Wait => For those in the 'watch and wait' status => Topic started by: Vivian B. on October 16, 2009, 11:04:06 am

Title: I have a date!
Post by: Vivian B. on October 16, 2009, 11:04:06 am

Hi everybody,

I just received a call from the Gammaknife Centre at Toronto Western, I have a consultation on Oct. 28/09. My Neurosurgeon will be attending in addition to a team of doctors . Wish me luck? I will keep you posted.

Vivian

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: another NY postie on October 16, 2009, 12:15:59 pm

Good luck!  Sounds like they will be taking good care of you..keep us posted! :D

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: Jim Scott on October 16, 2009, 01:32:54 pm

Vivian ~

Congratulations on securing a consultation date at the Toronto GammaKnife Centre.  Have your questions ready (and written down), take notes (or bring a friend who will do it for you).  Most of all, remain calm and focused.  We'll look forward to learning the results of the consult on the 28th. 

I added your consultation to our 'AN Treatment Calendar':  http://my.calendars.net/an_treatments/d28/10/2009?authenticate=&display=M&style=B (http://my.calendars.net/an_treatments/d28/10/2009?authenticate=&display=M&style=B)

Jim

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: yardtick on October 16, 2009, 01:53:47 pm

Lots of luck Vivian  :-* :-* :-* :-*

Anne Marie

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: Jackie on October 16, 2009, 04:09:43 pm

Best of luck Vivian, may your blessings be many!

Jackie

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: tenai98 on October 16, 2009, 04:26:55 pm

best of luck floating your way....focus and take notes..
JO

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Post by: opp2 on October 16, 2009, 04:53:31 pm

All the Best Vivian...Good Brampton vibes coming your way!

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Post by: CHD63 on October 16, 2009, 07:30:11 pm

Vivian .....

Always good to have things keep moving forward.  Thoughts and prayers continue.

Keep us posted.

Clarice

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: leapyrtwins on October 16, 2009, 10:33:53 pm

Congratulations, Vivian!  Great news!

Good luck,

Jan

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: Vivian B. on October 17, 2009, 04:58:53 pm

Thanks everybody for your ongoing support and prayers. I will definitely keep you posted.

Vivian

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: Keeping Up on October 17, 2009, 10:27:37 pm

Vivian

Late to the post.

Sorry the tumor has grown and the watch and wait protocol is no more.

I had a consult at the Gamma Knife Centre in February.  The center is quite nice (the appointment rooms are rather nasty though!).  I mightn't have appreciated the bed side manner of the radiation oncologist I met, but appreciated his advice (just keep on waiting, and do something when the hearing is gone and/or the tumor grows).   I didn't get any comfort from him on 'long-term' outcomes of radiation (> 20 years)  which still bothers me and leaves lingering thoughts. (Those doctors see dire cases every day - so compared to my small benign tumor, I guess it didn't cause them much concern.)  I am sure I will be back for another consultation ... just hoping it will be several years away.

It will be nice you have your neurosurgeon going with you.  (I went by myself - in hindsight, a bad idea.)  They have a senior neurosurgeon on the team as well - it would be an interesting conversation to hear the various doctor's opinions.

Ann

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: Tumbleweed on October 18, 2009, 12:40:51 am

Good luck, Vivian! I think GK is a great treatment choice. It's time to put that freeloading tumor on Death Row!

Best wishes,
TW

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: Vivian B. on October 18, 2009, 10:00:55 am

Hi Ann and TW

Thank you both for the all the information, support and good wished. I will keep everybody informed.

Vivian

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: Kiwi Don on October 18, 2009, 08:39:21 pm

Hi Vivian,
Thoughts and prayers from afar
Don

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: Mickey on October 19, 2009, 07:43:17 am

Best Wishes for a speedy recovery! Mickey

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: Vivian B. on October 19, 2009, 12:31:54 pm

Hi Don and Mickey,

Thank you both. I am getting a little nervous.

Vivian

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: ppearl214 on October 19, 2009, 12:36:34 pm

how da heck did I miss this?  :o  :o  :o

vivian, from reading my posts around here, I'm sure you are learning my mantra... "day by day, inch by inch..."  You're gonna do great! :)  You KNOW I'm cheering you on!

Phyl

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: GM on October 19, 2009, 03:54:47 pm

Good luck on your treatment! 

Title: Re: I have a date!
Post by: Vivian B. on October 19, 2009, 04:33:32 pm

Hi Phyl and GM

Thank you both. It's so good to have so many responses and know that there is such great support. I am thinking that after the consultuation I will be given an actual treatment date.

I wil post that as soon as I have it.

Vivian