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What is more valuable?

What is more valuable?

  • Excess Shop Space

    Votes: 4 23.5%

  • Excellent Health

    Votes: 14 82.4%
  • Total voters
    17
StevSmar said:
This thread reminded me of a joke.

A 90 year old man that’s quite famous marries a beautiful 24 years old.

He’s being interviewed and of course the conversation eventually turns to his new wife and eventually the interviewer asks the question everyone wants to know about: “What about sex, um, there is such a big difference in age, what would happen um, if sex causes death”

To which he responds “At my age that’s not a concern, if she dies she dies”.
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Sorry guys, I kinda screwed up the punch line.

The better ending is:
“To which he responds “At my age I’m not really worried about death. And if death was to happen during sex it wouldn’t bother me. If she dies she dies”
 
TorontoBuilder said:
The funny thing is, if it is your every day type floater by the time you wait it out and see doctor you may no longer notice it as the brain starts to ignore it like it's a homeless beggar on a 401 offramp
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That’s like the ringing in my ears. I don’t notice it unless something brings it to my consciousness. Like reading about floaters in this thread did.

I got my first floaters maybe 2 months ago. I tried to get rid of the dust in my eyes and eventually realized that they weren’t going away. They were pretty distracting for a few weeks and now I don’t know if they’re still there, breeding, growing.
 
In April I had a series of stabbing pain on the RH, rear of my head. It travelled into my earlobe, and eventually was the whole head. I went to the NP, who suggested taking Tylenol Extra strength x 2 (1000 mg) and 800 mg of Ibuprofen four times / day. By the third day I could no longer eat and was dry heaving. I went back and he sent me for a CT scan in Leamington (much faster, only 2 days) I got home and before I even sat down, got a call from him saying I had a Pituitary adenoma, about 2cm cubed. I was referred to Windsor regional hospital Urgent Neuro clinic. Within 1 week they called and I had my first meeting with the Neurosurgeon. I was sent to an Endocrinologist, Eye doctor and for an MRI. All was completed within 3 weeks and I returned to the neurosurgeon.

At this appointment I was given options and risks which were signed off on. do nothing-go blind, surgery-best choice, radiation-poor results. I picked # 2. Next Wednesday I will be having a 5 hour surgery. Expected best case scenario is 1 day in ICU, and 2-3 days normal room. I am a bit nervous, but am confident in the team at WRH. I will also be off work for 6 weeks. Luckily since the diagnosis, I have been really busy and banked 3 months of COLA. This will be an ongoing battle since the tumor has encase the carotid arteries. They will have to leave that part behind as it is too dangerous to take it. I am including two scans from the first MRI, and the verbiage from the one last week.

All the tools and software will be really useless if I become blind, as will my automobile. I need to do this.


Reason For Exam:
presurgical planning for pituitary lesion resection
Report:
Report
Multiplanar, multisequence MR imaging of the brain performed without
contrast following pituitary protocol.
COMPARISON: CT from March 31, 2025 and MRI pituitary from April 23,
2025.
FINDINGS:
There is a 2.8 x 2 x 3.2 cm pituitary macroadenoma centered in the
sella with suprasellar extension. It demonstrates subtle T2
hyperintense and T1 isointense signal. There is significant mass
effect on the optic chiasm which is displaced superiorly and draped
over the superior aspect of this large macroadenoma. There is
extension into the cavernous sinuses and the cavernous segments of
both internal carotid arteries are encased by about 180 degrees. The
pituitary stalk is not seen and appears to be compressed superiorly.
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Wow! Thank God you got fast help!

We have wondered where you had gotten to but didn't expect that to be a hospital.

Did you get to see the 3D images from the CTScan? Appropriate for you as a 3D wizard! If so, I would love to have been there to listen to the conversation!

Please keep us posted and all our best wishes Matt.
 
Matt-Aburg said:
In April I had a series of stabbing pain on the RH, rear of my head. It travelled into my earlobe, and eventually was the whole head. I went to the NP, who suggested taking Tylenol Extra strength x 2 (1000 mg) and 800 mg of Ibuprofen four times / day. By the third day I could no longer eat and was dry heaving. I went back and he sent me for a CT scan in Leamington (much faster, only 2 days) I got home and before I even sat down, got a call from him saying I had a Pituitary adenoma, about 2cm cubed. I was referred to Windsor regional hospital Urgent Neuro clinic. Within 1 week they called and I had my first meeting with the Neurosurgeon. I was sent to an Endocrinologist, Eye doctor and for an MRI. All was completed within 3 weeks and I returned to the neurosurgeon.

At this appointment I was given options and risks which were signed off on. do nothing-go blind, surgery-best choice, radiation-poor results. I picked # 2. Next Wednesday I will be having a 5 hour surgery. Expected best case scenario is 1 day in ICU, and 2-3 days normal room. I am a bit nervous, but am confident in the team at WRH. I will also be off work for 6 weeks. Luckily since the diagnosis, I have been really busy and banked 3 months of COLA. This will be an ongoing battle since the tumor has encase the carotid arteries. They will have to leave that part behind as it is too dangerous to take it. I am including two scans from the first MRI, and the verbiage from the one last week.

All the tools and software will be really useless if I become blind, as will my automobile. I need to do this.
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Jeebus man! Kinda goes to show just how fast the system can move when they think something serious is going down, dunnit?

In all seriousness, best wishes, for best results!
 
Positive thoughts. And faith in our very dedicated and honest doctors will get you through this.

In the last few years SWMBO has experienced our slow-moving but excellent medical system replacing both her lenses, fix a non-functioning thyroid and the encasing tumor, and installed a set of Teflon vocal cords. Plus the usual sort of random medical interactions that seem to creep up on us as we get older and wiser. All with excellent results.
 
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