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ReaderComments (Page 2 of 4)
12-05-2009 @ 4:57PM
zebega said...If the billboard is correct, the coach had a "cyberknife proceedure", cyberknife is a robotic radiation treatment option. They are usually done on an out-patient basis. Done in the morning, and out in the afternoon. The coach could have had a treatment for an AVM (Arterial-venouns malformation), or a treatment for an Acoustic Neuroma (inner ear benign tumor), both of these are treated with the cyberknife.
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12-05-2009 @ 5:28PM
Cathy said...I had radio laser procedure(newer than cyber knife) for a 3.2 cm AVM and went to Happy Hour right after it was over. My AVM did not get smaller but hasn't gotten any bigger either. It was too big to remove so they are trying this procedure.
Previous to that procedure I had a aneurysm coilded and was only in the hospital over night. They went through the artery in my groin to coil the aneurysm. What they can do now is amazing
12-05-2009 @ 5:32PM
ameraussie said...zebega is correct. The billboard refers to Cyberknife which is a high dose radiation "laser" surgery. No actual cutting is done on the patient. The procedure could be done in the morning as outpatient. The effects would be minimal and the patient could resume normal activity in the afternoon.
12-05-2009 @ 5:07PM
Kira said...humid --Awesome!! So happy for you getting your life back!
I have seen elderly patients with severe tremors (Parkinson's)go to the O.R. and return totally awake(they were awake during the surgery to monitor them better) and return with tiny tremor or no more tremors. People unable to feed themselves now able to feed themselves-lives can be changed with an open mind to learning. All hospital and health care employees especially those in the Technical fields need to stay abreast the changes if they are to be useful. Nursing changes happen slowly, but surgery, technological advances happen at least once a year, the field is ever changing, you cannot take a year off to be with your new baby at a hospital unless you are a RN, if you are technologist and you take a year off you need to catch up to new software, new protocol changes and new advances or let someone else take over:) Keep up or get out of the way attitude is what will make change-Demand quality after all you are paying for it, one way or another
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12-05-2009 @ 5:06PM
Kira said...Polycarp -Hope you got a A+ on your test:) Feel better!!
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12-05-2009 @ 5:27PM
Polycarp said...Yes, thank you. All test's came back negative. There is a lesion or whatever it is on the brain the neurologist wanted to look at, study it. Humorous side of it, "I have a brain"!!!!!!!
12-05-2009 @ 5:07PM
Kira said...Frank the tank -You are absolutely right if you are talking about EIGHT years ago, when Cyberknife/Gammaknife was in it's infancy. Look how less prehistoric it is now.. Hard to believe but true
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12-05-2009 @ 5:24PM
patti ann said...I had Gamma Knife Radiation for Trigeminal Neurolgia. Went to the hospital at 5AM...had the procedure and was home by 11AM...So Gamma Knife/CyberKnife is just a form of radiation...People hear the word KNIFE and instantly think surgery...Not so....
12-05-2009 @ 8:02PM
frank said...Kira- Radiosurgery(cyber/gamma) may be a little more advanced but it still has an 80-90% success rate for AVM's. Also, for AVM's it is not just one in and out procedure. You have to have a few treatments. Pretty much the same as when I had mine removed. I think the difference now is that the radiation might be more focused but the success rate is the same. My AVM was to large and it was to close to the visual center that complete removal was a no brainer for me. I did not want to go though life with the chance for it to bleed again.
12-05-2009 @ 5:25PM
Me said...I had brain surgery to fix a problem with a nerve. The procedure was on a Friday afternoon and I was out of the hospital the next morning. I was at Chuck E. Cheese by 6pm Saturday playing with the kids. You would think after having 2 inches of skull cut out and having nerves messed with, I wouldn't have been able to do anything but I was ready to go. A little tired and my head looked greasy but the pain before surgery was horrible compared to after surgery pain.
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12-05-2009 @ 5:29PM
Marion said...A cyberknife is a radiation therapy procedure. It does not involve any cutting
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12-05-2009 @ 5:50PM
Kira said...Polycarp-Oh Goody!!-Now you can tell your friends that they were all wrong:) Good health is priceless. I watch people get mad at each other for dumb things and I just stop and laugh because I can..Happy Holiday to you and yours!!!!!!!!!
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12-05-2009 @ 5:57PM
Kira said...noninvasive==no cutting
Me is the one that had invasive brain surgery(cutting)--------Happy "Me" was at Chucky Cheese shortly after even after a 2in incision, it is all about Location Location Location:) and how educated/experienced your MD is! But most importantly on what it is they are doing surgery on...Glioma, astrocytoma, hemangioma, AVM....never say never
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12-05-2009 @ 6:07PM
ohstops said...I had a transventricular cranitomy in may 1995, that is conventional surgery,I have remaining problems due to the scar tissue, but the benign tumor was completely removed and has not regrown.I am left with memory and cognitive impairments.The gamma knife sounds so wonderful but I would be careful in its use and weight he effects of the exposure of the secondary radiation and the overall accumulated dose to the brain and other organs.
For the greater good let us pray for the best for all who are suffering from any traumatic brain injury and those who care and love them.
John Broadwell
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12-06-2009 @ 12:30AM
JOE said...OHSTOPS, I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR MEMORY LOSS. IN AUGUST 2003, I HAD A BENIGN TUMOR REMOVED FROM MY LEFT TEMPORAL LOBE. I NOW HAVE A BIG QUESTION MARK ON THE LEFT SIDE OF MY HEAD. I WAS 37 YEARS OLD. I HAD SO CALLED "MIGRAINE" HEADACHES UNTIL I HAD A MRI DONE FOR A HEARING PROBLEM. I HAD SEEN DIFFERENT NEUROLOGISTS SINCE I WAS 11 YEARS OLD AND THEY COULD NEVER FIGURE OUT THE PROBLEM, IT WAS A EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT DOCTOR WHO FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM. I HAD JUST SEEN A NEW NEUROLOGIST 2 WEEKS PRIOR TO THIS AND HE JUST WANTED TO GIVE ME MORE MEDICATION. I WENT BACK TO THE NEUROLOGIST AND THE ONLY GOOD THING HE DID WAS SENT ME TO THE EPILEPSY CENTER AT STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN ROCHESTER NEW YORK. I SAW THE IN APRIL 2003 AND HAD SURGERY IN AUGUST. UNFORTUNATELY, THE LEFT SIDE OF MY BRAIN IS WHERE MY MEMORY WAS. THEY WOKE ME UP AFTER CUTTING MY SKULL OPEN AND THEN DID THE MAPPING SO THEY COULD STAY AWAY FROM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. THE DOCTOR THAT DID THIS WAS GREAT, AND I STILL GIVE THEM SO MUCH CREDIT FOR WHAT THEY CAN DO. I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL FOR THREE DAYS . AFTER SURGERY, MY HEAD WAS QUITE SWELLED. DUE TO WHERE I WORK, I WAS OUT OF WORK FOR 6 MONTHS UNTIL MY HEAD HARDENED UP ENOUGH SO I COULD GET HURT IF I HIT IT ON SOMETHING. THE MEMORY PART IS FRUSTRATING BECAUSE ALOT OF PEOPLE JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND. WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING PHONE CALLS, MY GREAT WIFE HAS TAKEN IT OVER BECAUSE I GET VERY CONFUSED. I WAS SEIZURE FREE UNTIL THE DAY AFTER LABOR DAY. I AM NOW GOING THROUGH MORE TESTS IN ROCHESTER AND I GO BACK THE MONDAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS TO FIND OUT THE RESULTS
12-05-2009 @ 6:18PM
Ron said...My wife had two Cyberknife surgeries for small malignant (carcinoid) tumors in her brain. We didn't know how her reaction would be so we went home to let her rest after the first surgery, but after the second we went shopping. She was having a little trouble getting money out of her wallet at check out and I said, come on, it's not like you had brain surgery this morning -- wait a minute, you did have brain surgery this morning. She laughed, the cashier was shocked, and so it was. Unfortunately while the tumors in her brain were treatable, the ones in her liver were not, and she died several months after the Cyberknife. That surgery, however, was successful -- both tumors were gone when she went for her followup two months later.
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12-05-2009 @ 6:19PM
Clark said...I believe it. I meet people every day that act like they had brain surgery in the morning. I'm pretty sure that's how we get Democrats.
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12-05-2009 @ 6:20PM
marz said...actually this ad is true, cyberknife is a kind of radiation that will indeed have you out in a day. it's a new kind of treatment, which is why you're all worked up. this doesn't involve cutting heads.
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12-05-2009 @ 6:26PM
Gunsmoke said...I HAD BRAIN TRASPLANT THIS MORNING, NOW I CAN'T REMEMBER MYSELF !!!
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12-05-2009 @ 6:26PM
druid0621 said...Face it - doctors are human beings, and therefore are fallible. My father and grandfather were both physicians, and each of them saw that the public expected a good result every single time - despite the patient's condition. And they didn't like the perception that doctor's are perfect, incapable of error.
Twenty years ago, my mother had hip replacement surgery and was in the hospital for over a week. Last year, I had both of them replaced one at a time, and was released within 48 hrs. Medicine is always improving, but humans are always fallible. Nothing is perfect, and none of us will live forever.
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