Matthew on 16/10/2008 at 22:01
So I just found out an hour ago that Dad apparently has a lesion on his brain. Given that he's had two bouts of cancer previously I am assuming the worst. If it is cancer what would his chances of success be? Could it just be from the mini-stroke he just had?
SubJeff on 16/10/2008 at 22:21
There is no way of knowing, at all, what his prognosis will be without all the facts. What is the lesion, what type of cancer has he had before, more details about the stroke etc etc? The range is, naturally, from very poor to excellent prognosis - until you know more.
pavlovscat on 16/10/2008 at 23:14
A lesion on the brain is a very vague diagnosis. Wait until you have more info. I have MS and at least a dozen brain lesions, but I'm still kicking.
fett on 17/10/2008 at 00:36
Not to be insensitive, but your perspective on life is very skewed if you think anyone as intelligent as a medical professional posts at ttlg. Have you seen the 'going down under down under' thread?
Scots Taffer on 17/10/2008 at 00:52
I'll have you know we're all professionals in our chosen fields.
Oh yeah, sorry about the bad news old bean. :(
PigLick on 17/10/2008 at 01:01
Sub Eff is in the medical profession, yes? whether he is 'professional' or not is another story.
PigLick on 17/10/2008 at 01:01
also, professional haha what a fucking odd word
Nicker on 17/10/2008 at 06:28
I played a doctor on TV once...
Even if someone here was qualified to give a prognosis, they couldn't do it in a forum thread.
I am qualified to offer my best wishes and sincere hopes that your father's condition is less serious than you suspect and that he experiences the best of health under the circumstances.
Matthew on 17/10/2008 at 14:57
Quote Posted by fett
Not to be insensitive, but your perspective on life is very skewed if you think anyone as intelligent as a medical professional posts at ttlg. Have you seen the 'going down under down under' thread?
Thanks for this most useful post. Thanks for the kind words, the rest of you. He had breast cancer and a resultant mastectomy about 10 years ago, with radiotherapy and drug treatment, then the removal of a cancerous growth from the outside of his lung (and the removal of one of the lobes) about 2-3 years ago. The 'mini-stroke' occurred this day last week when he found himself mostly unable to see out of his left eye save for a very black-tinged partial view at the top, but I think they're now thinking it might be this lesion that caused it instead of a TIA.
I don't know so much about the lesion yet, I'm going up to the hospital later on to find out more.
MsLedd on 18/10/2008 at 06:39
Matthew, I am so sorry to hear about your dad. :( My own father is in the beginning stages of Leukemia right now, and I lost my mother to a brain tumor ten years ago.
As has been said, a "lesion" is very vague, but I will tell you what I learned from my own experience. Mom was 100% healthy (you know, one of those irritatingly responsible people who always did the right thing, for themselves and others? that was mom) then one night she had a seizure. CAT scan & MRI showed a "mass" in her brain, which might be an infection, so they wanted to operate in case it was and they could get it. Next morning she went into brain surgery... but that was when we lost her. It wasn't an infection, it was cancer, and not only that but the nastiest, fastest-growing type and it had already worked its way through the important bits of her brain, so there was no getting it all. But the surgery had taken away the woman we all knew, she never came back from that and we watched this stranger deteriorate over the next 8 months, and then finally succumb to the tumor. It was a NIGHTMARE.
If we had it to do over again, we'd have taken her home after the CAT & MRI... maybe do some radiation etc. She's still have died, but we'd have had those last few months with the woman we all knew and loved.
I have no idea if that helps anything or not... hindsight's 20/20, and everybody's different. Maybe I just needed to share that, I dunno.
You and your family are in my prayers, hang in there hun!
