Out Staples. Out, I say.

Hey all—

We had one of our follow-up appointments this past Monday.

The exciting side of the visit was having the staples removed from Amie’s head. I was expecting her to have a raised ridge line from the healing, but it was perfectly flat. 28 staples removed and a baby-soft fuzzy strip of hair where the incision site sits from only 2 weeks ago.

We were able to catch up with Litvack and his team, Mohab and Nicole. We received updates on the medication Amie is taking and the expectation as to when she’ll stop taking some of them or transition to an oral alternative.

From what we uncovered, the medical team did discuss Amie’s particular case during the morning’s Tumor Board meeting. We figured they glanced over it last week as it was known to be benign and not as emergent as compared to other patients’ during that review.

From looking at her scans, Litvack has asked to send along two sections of the tumor for genetic testing. By doing this, they hope to find information that might help with looking not only at Amie’s particular case in more detail, but let us know if she’ll be susceptible to another case in the future. Let’s hope not.

During the Tumor Board meeting, Dr. John Hensen, Neuro-oncologist, was interested in Amie’s case. So, Litvack introduced us to Hensen and he met with us for 40 minutes to hear more about Amie’s history with her leukemia as a kid and the symptoms we had noticed over the last year that might have been directly related to the meningioma.

All-in-all, we had a very productive appointment and I earned a few beers from Elysian while we enjoyed a much needed lunch out of the house.

Much love,

Tim, Amie, Butch, Squeak, & Remi