Went to Cambridge University Hospital (CUH) (Addenbrook's) for Pre Surgery checks
All checks OK so OK for having my 6/7th surgery
Surgery is booked for 29th Nov
With my new surgeon and apparently my previous surgeon and a third surgeon attending as well
So a triple tag team of surgeons
I have been in terrible pain the last few week's
The nerve injections made the pain worse than ever
Then amazingly things suddenly started to improve and most of the pain went away in the occipital nerve area
I still have a lot of pain in the neck and now top of shoulder which I think is pressure on the muscles from the tumour growth
The occipital nerve pain is at the moment under control
More Tumour Growth
Now approx 48mm x 49mm
So it has grown 1cm since last scan
The technical wording on the report
The heterogeneous T2 hyperintense patchy enhancing tumour in the left
neck, left lateral masses of the upper cervical spine, extending from the
petroclival region down to the level of C4 is unchanged in its superior
aspect at the level of the odontoid peg but continues to increase in size
At its inferior aspect. At the level of the C2 vertebral body, it has maximal transverse
dimensions of 49 x 48 mm (previously 39 x 35 mm at a similar level).
Medially, epidural tumour indents the thecal sac and minimally indents the
left side of the spinal cord. Its inferior tip is now at the level of the
C4 superior endplate (previously C3 inferior endplate)
