Several years ago, umm, almost 5 actually, T began experiencing horrible, horrible pain in his face. At the time he had had some dental work done and they assumed it was an infection as a result of a root canal. But, as the pain got steadily worse instead of better, the doctor assumed he had tri-geminal neuralgia and began treating him with some anti-convulsants. Soon it became nearly unbearable and an MRI was performed. Yep....brain tumor. I remember sitting in the little room talking with the doctor while he reviewed the MRI. Suddenly it was there on the screen. I silently prayed that it was nothing and perhaps that was just a normal part of the brain, but alas, it was not. T had a benign myelin sheath tumor on his tri-geminal nerve. We quickly made plans to see a specialist at the Mayo Clinic and flew out a couple days later. After much discussion with a couple of different specialists, we chose a risky new treatment called Radio Gamma Knife Surgery. Though only given a 50/50 chance of relief, the treatment worked and the pain was gone.
After the ordeal we decided we should celebrate and organized the first of our (almost) annual party "Pain Free Brain Party." It is a super time to remember how blessed we are that T is pain free. This year our awesome friends offered to have the party at their condo on the lake.
Pray for sun!!
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