Saturday, June 05, 2004

Seeing the First Doctor Again

More confusion. I saw the first doctor (the doctor I saw May 21st who recommended surgery) on Friday armed with questions about choice of treatment. He was more difficult to talk to then the third opinion doctor. And he is extremely knowledgeable which I really like. When I would start with a question such as, "if it's a glioma II then" he would interrupt me and say -- what type of glioma II, and start to list out various types... I would then rephrase my question. I was able to learn a lot. I told him that I'm emotionally exhausted (from my dad's illness and death) and do not want to go into surgery emotionally exhausted if I have a choice. I said that I would wait at least three months. He said -- don't have surgery because of me. It's OK to wait and watch. I appreciated him picking up that I was leaning toward surgery because he advocated surgery strongly. He believes it is in my best interest. The truth is I'm still thinking. He recommended I come back for and MRI in three months. I'm going to do that. And he recommended I talk with their neuro-oncologist, which I will also do but not next week.

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