My Brain Surgery

[I'm Jon]

[QUOTE=clutch2;33809112]I'm glad this thread got bumped.. I am hoping for nothing but the best for Sir Brandon through this whole ordeal, and it's been so long since the blog got an update[/QUOTE]

Last Activity 11 Hours Ago.

I think he is good.

[Shifty Pete]

Wish you all the well.

Honestly though, some doctors can be outright dumb. Panic attacks? Really? Okay, maybe if you didn't get a chance to say that you ate healthy, managed well etc. it would've been okay for them to tell you it was just panic attacks...Hang on, did you tell them or not? Eh, never mind.

Losing the ability to speak and understand speech would suck. I hope the operation goes well.

[editline]20th December 2011[/editline]

Oh crap, this from april.

[clutch2]

[QUOTE=ejonkou;33809261]Last Activity 11 Hours Ago.

I think he is good.[/QUOTE]

Perhaps, but you don't have to be in tip-top shape to be posting on a forum on the internet. It would be reassuring to hear he's in remission and not just in limbo between failed treatment and the outcome :/

[woot5k]

I hope OP is okay!

[Kill coDer]

I want to send OP a christmas card.

[Clyde Valentine]

If you read his blog it says that his surgery didn't go as planned...resulting in a biopsy instead. The results came out to say that he has Stage 2 Brain Cancer. He is fighting it to this day, brave spirit.

[Missing User]

[t]http://www.foszor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/IMAG0013.jpg[/t]

And from above :

[quote]But on Friday we had a follow up with my neurosurgeon, the same guy that performed my operation. We were so excited to pick his brain (PUN INTENDED!) and get some info to put our minds at ease. I’m not going to sit here and type out every question and answer, but a lot of it was really interesting so here’s a quick recap:

My incision is healing really well. He was super happy about how quickly it has healed.
I have a round titanium plate screwed into my head. Its about the size of a quarter.
No, it won’t set off the metal detector at the airport.
No, it won’t stop a bullet (dammit!)
They took multiple samples during the biopsy procedure: 12 to be exact… all of which came back from pathology as stage 2 cancer.
Yes, it has the potential of graduating to stage 3 or 4 without warning (all cancer can do that).
He gave me the option of having surgery, or forgo surgery but monitor the tumor with frequent MRIs.
He can’t recommend which is the better option. Its completely my decision.
If I do have surgery, I could have difficulty speaking. Or even worse, I wouldn’t be able to speak at all.
There are no studies, statistics or other information to give me any percentage of what the outcome might be. Every person is unique and there isn’t any exact science to follow.
He is not ready to release me for radiation and/or chemotherapy treatment… he wants me to heal for an additional 3 weeks (minimum).
During the next 3 weeks I need to decide if I want to proceed with surgery or not.
Deciding if I want to proceed with surgery is a huge decision that I need to feel 100% comfortable with.
If I decide to wait on the removal and start with chemotherapy & radiation, it will significantly increase the risk of surgery down the road because radiation scars the brain cells.
So there you have it… a bunch of answers to questions that… well… just created a metric fuckton of new questions! I wanted to scratch questions off my list, not add more to it. I’m running out of room in my notebook and now I don’t have any room left for poop art![/quote]
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[CrispexOps]

I would take the operation. You may never be able to speak again, but it's better than never being able to see your family again.

[C:\]

[QUOTE=CrispexOps;33838426]I would take the operation. You may never be able to speak again, but it's better than never being able to see your family again.[/QUOTE]

This. You could just use something like a notepad.

[Scoot12]

god save the middle class white man

[truebluesniper]

Hah you should be a fiction writer bro

[Contag]

OP was murdered by the neurosurgeon.
His face was surgically removed and placed on that of a Russian illegal immigrant who assumed his identity.

[Zalador]

OP is cool

have a wonderful christmas with your family Foszor

[Tukimoshi]

Hope you get better. Cancer sucks but it's not the end of the road, it's just the start of a bumpy patch.

[znk666]

Let's hope his death was painless...

[Rayne Rimsek]

[QUOTE=znk666;33858344]Let's hope his death was painless...[/QUOTE]

What?

[Ryz0]

[QUOTE=znk666;33858344]Let's hope his death was painless...[/QUOTE]

pretty disrespectful thing to say bro

[Arcana]

[QUOTE=znk666;33858344]Let's hope his death was painless...[/QUOTE]

I am pretty sure he is still battling (and hopefully winning)

[Zareox]

[QUOTE=znk666;33858344]Let's hope his death was painless...[/QUOTE]

He's not dead you jackass.

[kevaughan]

rude tings.

[ashton93]

[QUOTE=truebluesniper;33840140]Hah you should be a fiction writer bro[/QUOTE]

Unnecessary dude, why are people in this thread acting like dicks to him?

Anyways, if I were you I would take the operation. As other people have stated above, it would be better to risk losing your ability to speak than never seeing your family again.

[Contag]

surgery then radiochemo

But to clarify, it's just the part of the brain that is required for creating speech, and not processing/interpreting written and oral language?

Some studies have suggested that the function of Broca's area (the part of brain responsible for speech creation) can be shifted to other parts, anyhow.

[editline]26th December 2011[/editline]

but even without the ability to read, speak and understand others, there are plenty of non-verbal cues through which you can convey thoughts
smiling is the most prominent example that comes to mind

[Benstokes]

Yep, as brain functions go, speech isn't extremely vital. If I had to pick one to lose, that would probably be it, especially since the brain has been known to rewire and work around it.

[ChinballzV2]

did you have the cancer?

[Richard Longflop]

Does fos even visit this thread anymore?

[Daniel Smith]

You got 1337 hearts :smile:

[Scarabix]

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;33912315]You got 1337 hearts :smile:[/QUOTE]

Fuck you, I thought I was the only one to notice. :v:

Now that it's gone, have a screenie to remember how hip the OP is.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/m1yLt.png[/IMG]

Nice to see the man got better.

[Contag]

But he didn't get better?

[Bredirish123]

I hope Foszor is doing ok, I know he still posts here quite often.

When I was working I had a manager who had COPD and Stage 3 Lung Cancer; he's still fighting it after a year but what's sad is most people who worked with him saw him as an asshole because he's quite a ball buster. I even did for the longest time, then one day I was on break and smoking a cigar when he came outside and sat down next to me; he turned and said, "You know those things will kill you right?" I didn't know how to respond, it was almost a mix of shock and disappoint with myself. After I few seconds of thoughtful guilt I put it out and tossed it away. We talked for a while and toward the end of my break I asked him how his fight was going, and in the most sad and worried way he said, "It's hard, it's really hard getting up in the morning and coming to work, it wears me down and I feel so weak." But with an eager fire for survival he finished by saying, "But I will beat this damn cancer, I will not give in, and I won't lose this battle for my life." Those words were quite moving, and ever since I always thought of him as a very nice and sweet man, who's experiencing one of the worst possible things imaginable.

Sadly, a few months before our store closed and all of my coworkers were transferred throughout our district he had a seizure on the way to work and was hospitalized. Kroger (My Grocery Store) told him that he couldn't work anymore and was forced to retire so that he can focus on getting better and spend time with his wife. He still stayed optimistic though and frequently came into the store to visit everyone, and even after our store closed a good majority of us all got together for a family dinner; he's showed up each time.

I recently moved here to Crete, Greece and had to leave my world behind, but I still keep in touch with everyone and apparently he's doing quite well, still fighting, but we all have high hopes that he'll beat the shit out of it.

I know Foszor will too, half the battle is keeping yourself motivated and ready to take on anything; if you let cancer take over your life then it will most definitely take your life. So Foszor if you're reading this, and I know you're still active here on FP, you are going to beat the fuck out of this cancer, I know you will.

[Str4fe]

I really wonder why foszor doesnt post in this thread anymore, or even update his blog.