I guess my mom is an odd case since she has ONLY brain mets with an apparently invisible primary.
The chief neurosurgeon at our top hospital did her craniotomy and got the biggest of the buggers.
So now we've got a 1.8 cm at the front of left parietal lobe, 8 cm one in the left posterior putamen, and 3-4 ish mm one in the left frontal lobe right next to where the biggun (2.8 cm) was removed.
Our radiation oncologist is also the chief of that department, and she said she thinks we will only need to do one gamma knife treatment, then scans every 2-3 months and more gamma knife if we have any recurrences (and probably will, that seems to be how it goes).
She said that she looks at this more as "being able to manage something more akin to a chronic disease" than a doom and gloom death sentence.
This was the best news we could've hoped for, and we've even yet to meet with the melanoma specialist next week.
If anyone as any input or comments, I welcome any and all 🙂
As a side note, my mom has been taking CBD/THC oil throughout this whole process. I know it's unlikely to have any curative properties on it's own and is mostly useful for symptom reduction (appetite, insomnia, pain, etc) but I'm also kind of wondering if perhaps it has contributed with the remarkably minimal edema she's had surrounding any of these tumors. Just something I'm curious about, because I feel like the lack of edema gives her a bit of wiggle room for treatments that might cause some.
Anyway, I'm super happy and just wanted to share with you all!!
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