Brain Surgery...

Last week my mother found out on Tuesday that she was going to have her brain tumor removed on that Thursday. Short notice, but it was actually a relief not to have to worry and stress about it for several weeks or days. Darla and I got up at 2:00 a.m. that Thursday and left at 3:30 to go down to Columbia. Mom's check in was at 5:45 and we wanted to get there before that. They took her back to the surgery waiting at 7:00, surgery started at 8:30 and she was done at 10:30. By 11:00 they have told us that she was moving her hands, feet, and talking. We were relieved because those were the areas of concern with the area of her tumor. When removing the tumor the doctor told us that he would have to cut around the tumor and then kinda scoop it out. After he "got in there" he discovered that there was a vein going over the top of the tumor that he was able to move to the side, cut around the edges of the tumor and just "pop it out" (in his words) because it wasn't attached on the bottom side. She was really lucky. The MRI taken the next day showed that there were no cancerous cells remaining in her brain. Currently she is CANCER FREE!!!