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Treatment Options => Radiation / Radiosurgery => Topic started by: nanramone on April 19, 2010, 10:19:23 am

Title: Gamma Knife date
Post by: nanramone on April 19, 2010, 10:19:23 am

Hi all -

I've made an appointment for Gamma Knife with Dr. Lunsford in Pittsburgh on May 18! How do I get this on the calendar!

I'm glad to be attacking the intruder, very soon!

Nancy

Title: Re: Gamma Knife date
Post by: sunfish on April 19, 2010, 11:08:06 am

Glad to hear you made a decision!  I'll bet you feel relieved. Like I've said before, Pittsburgh has some great doctors!

Title: Re: Gamma Knife date
Post by: GM on April 19, 2010, 03:39:23 pm

CONGRATS on making your decision....that is truely the hardest part.  Best of luck on your treatment!!

GM

Title: Re: Gamma Knife date
Post by: Jim Scott on April 19, 2010, 03:47:10 pm

Nancy ~

Congratulations on your appointment with Dr. Lunsford on May 18th.  You're on the AN Treatment Calendar -  http://my.calendars.net/an_treatments/d01/05/2010?display=M&style=B&positioning=A (http://my.calendars.net/an_treatments/d01/05/2010?display=M&style=B&positioning=A)

Jim

Title: Re: Gamma Knife date
Post by: nanramone on April 19, 2010, 07:49:50 pm

Thanks everyone! The best part of making the decision is that now I feel like I can relax about this a bit and get back to some work I need to do~ after this week, I'll be painting sets for Cabaret for our community theater here, which will consume much of my energy - and before I know it, I'll be leaving for NYC to see my daughter for a week, which will be followed by GK....

This has been an unusual spring season, to say the least!

Nancy

Title: Re: Gamma Knife date
Post by: Lizard on April 19, 2010, 08:21:21 pm

Congrats on your decision!  And try to take a few moments to take it all in...

Title: Re: Gamma Knife date
Post by: leapyrtwins on April 20, 2010, 09:10:08 pm

Nancy -

congratulations on making your treatment decision.  It's honestly one of the hardest parts of the AN Journey. 

Good luck!

Jan

Title: Re: Gamma Knife date
Post by: crivers on April 23, 2010, 07:30:18 pm

I'm glad you've made your decision and I wish you the best through the treatment process.
Cayce

Title: Re: Gamma Knife date
Post by: nanramone on April 23, 2010, 08:22:36 pm

Thanks to all - As many have said, making the decision seems to be difficult - since posting this, I've had the pleasure to write and/or speak directly to a group of people  (from willing to talk list) who had GK for their AN - some went to Pittsburgh, and a few had Dr. Lunsford... - over all, the info I received served as affirmation that this is the right choice for me. As I said elsewhere, I initially was so afraid of the idea of radiation - I worked at a university with athymic mice which were irradiated as part of prostate cancer research - though it had nothing to do with this, the results were sometimes negative, and I think that I was being irrational about radiation because of the mice!

Anyway, let me express gratitude for this forum - all of you who are here to offer support to those who are distressed about this problem...it provides a safe haven, for sure, at a time that can be very isolating.

I started my theater set painting today, and this is the best day I've had since late March! This thing was hardly on my mind all day.

Nancy