Blogging in B Minor

I didn’t have a chance to post the most recent MRI images so I’m posting a number of them here – mostly “top down” views to spare the medical terminology.  The last is head on. 

What is interesting about the first set here is you can see as the scan slices move through the brain, the center of the tumor appears to be dying – and there is likely some necrosis.  This is something that can come along with gamma knife surgery.  But you can plainly see that as the images progress from top to bottom there is a “hollowness” for lack of a better term which is – well, better than growth!  Necrosis is scar tissue but in my case we don’t believe resecting it will be an issue (some survivors have to have this removed to avoid brain pressure/swelling).

 I don’t have my pre-gamma scans here but the comparison is interesting – the tumor was one solid mass so between that and the vaccine and other treatments, we are moving in the right direction I believe.   All we have is today!

Head On

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