Hi everyone, I wanted to give you all an update and hopefully end to my surgery story. After 14 months, 3 mri's and a growing tumor around 1.7mm. I finally made the decision to have surgery at USC with doctors Friedman and Giannotta. I think I wavered between surgery and radiation till the moment they wheeled me off. What made the decision hard was the fact that I had no symptoms other than tinnitus, hearing was still pretty good and they only gave me a 50/50 chance of keeping it. Surgery was aug 4, released on aug 7. I appear to have kept most of my hearing, no facial issues. Now just need to get that balance stuff back. Couldn't have asked for a better outcome. Day 1 and 2 were terrible for me because of the dizzyness but each day is really exponentially better. My piece of advice if you choose surgery is go someplace where they do LOTS of AN surgerys! I also need to say that the entire staff at USC were awesome not just the docs and specialists but the floor nurses fantastic. I don't want to sound like an ad but... Thanks to everyone in the group, your stories have been helpful, humorous, and a bit frightening too.
