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I am pretty sure most of anyone who knows me knows my wife, Elizabeth had brain surgery in August of 2013. The story, Elizabeth was diagnosed with a brain tumor, small tumor in 2010. In 2013 Elizabeth was pregnant with our second child and we were doing well. She was working full time and bringing home the bigger paycheck. In June she began to have migraine headaches, the OB doctors said this was normal in pregnancy. So we took this as prego problems. The headaches did not stop, she began to miss work and was fired from her job in late July, even though she was covered under the FMLA. Beginning of August my prego wife began having even more intense headaches and could not hold so much as water down without vomiting. So I took her to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, to cut this short, 3 times over the course of 10 days. The did nothing, didn’t check her head, sent her away with Tylenol and fluids. Finally we took her to Memorial and they suggested we go to Barnes-Jewish in St. Louis. After a long night and Elizabeth’s memory beginning to fade she was diagnosed with a very large brain tumor that needed to be taken care of immediately.
Being pregnant the doctors were uncertain of what to do, the offered to monitor the baby and if there were any complications, they could stop the surgery and deliver the baby. She would have been 24 weeks and Elizabeth’s chances of survival were slim. The other option is no monitor, check the baby after. So I was left with this decision, I chose to not monitor the baby so they could concentrate on Elizabeth and get her taken care of. Rather than something happen and bring a baby how could have tremendous health issues into the world. Continue reading “Glioblastoma with pnet component, Stage IV, sucks!”