A Little History

For those of you unaware of the history of Autumn's diagnosis, I'll summarize the major events in a few bullet points below.

I'll update more as I think of things and go through my other notes.

• Mar 2015:  Autumn had two back to back grand mal seizures - something I wouldn't wish on anyone.  I was present for the second one which again ended up in another ambulance ride to the local ER.  
• Feb 2015:  Autumn had 2 or 3 small seizures over the course of about 10 days.  The first one being very scary and ending up with another ambulance ride into the local ER.  
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• Dec 2009 to Feb 2015:  Regular MRIs to monitor any regrowth of the tumor after the resection.  Over the years it is possible to see minimal regrowth at the boundaries of the tumor wall.
• Dec 2009:  Autumn spent about 5 days in physical and occupational therapy.  Side affects from the surgery included limited ability to speak and severely limited movement and mobility on the right hand side of her body.
• Dec 2009:  Underwent complete tumor resection surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH.  The surgery lasted about 7 hours if I remember correctly, and we spent 5 days or so in the hospital.
• Sept 2009:  Autumn's first grand mal seizure which ended up with an ambulance trip to the ER, and a night in the hospital.  This is where we received the first CT scan and MRI showing the obvious mass \ tumor growing in her left-hand frontal lobe.

Andrew

Info

I hope this blog will be an "OK" way to share information with this group of our friends.  I was considering using Facebook, but something about the public nature and limited ability to control access sent me back to blogger.  Let's see how it goes.

Andrew

Thank You

Very first off, I would like to say thank you to all of our neighbors, friends, and family for the support, words of encouragement and help provided during the past week.  Going through challenging circumstances in life becomes much more manageable with a network of support.

And of course to my lovely wife and daughters, who are all so passionate, brave, and determined.

Thank you so much,

Andrew