CyberKnife It Is

I walked out of my appt. with Dr. Lee the Second--who will be known on this blog as CyberKnife Guy--about an hour ago, totally exhausted. 

Which is not to say it wasn't a good appt. It was. And CyberKnife guy answered all my questions and more. But now I can hardly keep my head up, so I am eating a bowl of oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar and then I'm going to take a nap. 

Because I didn't sleep well last night, and I woke up extra early, probably because I knew I had to get up an hour earlier. It kinda works that way, doesn't it?

A couple of things I learned: 

My tumor is about one centimeter in size, about the same size as the tumor in my right lung. 

The tumor is in the bone of my skull, which I knew, but not on the bone at the surface. It is actually about two inches deep inside my head. There's bone there too, which I didn't know.

Anyway, I decided to go ahead with the cyberknife rather than gamma knife for two reasons: 

Cyberknife is probably better at sparing the nerve that my tumor is wrapped around, because I will have three to five treatments, rather than one with the gamma knife. 

And two, I like this doctor--he is thorough, considerate, and obviously very into his work--and I intensely disliked the doctor who tried to railroad me into agreeing to gamma knife. There's a rant coming about that doctor, who in my view was ambulance chasing. 

More on cyberknife once I've had a nap. 

@ Jeanne Sather 2009. 

Comments

[Stephanie]

Wonderful news on the successful meeting with the new specialist. I am also impressed that he took the time to give you a thorough explanation of the problem at hand and what he would do about it.

Are you in the scheduling process now?

[Laurie]

Thanks for sharing this all with us as candidly as you usually do. I am reading with great interest and, as always, I'm rooting for you.

[carver]

Hi Jeanne,

I'm so glad that you like the doctor who will be doing Cyberknife and that you've made a decision. I think waiting to decide can be hard. As ever, Carver