Hoppy New Year

We had an ambivalent trip to Sloan Kettering today.  The good news: the tumor was small, it was incidentally discovered, Jenn is young, the surgery was successful, and she has always been asymptomatic.  The bad news: this type of class II tumor will grow back at which point we might need to strongly consider radiation or chemotherapy both of which have potential irreversible long-term side-effects not to mention the immediate ramifications.  For the moment we are resigned to monitoring the situation and we have a follow-up MRI on March 10 where they should also have the results of some additional genetic 1p/19q testing.  The main takeaways were that Jenn is very unique and all the studies, statistics, and info you read on the Internet will never be 100% applicable to our situation so do not read too much into it.  Did that stop her?  Of course not and I caught Jenn watching YouTube videos of brain surgery!

"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars." - Charles Austin Beard (a great quote we heard from a good friend)