Big things, SMAll things
This blog post will mostly be talking about the Supplementary Motor Area (SMA). So after seeing the surgeons this week they told me my SMA has been invaded and will need to be removed. So basically the plan is to have a large resection of most of the tumour again, anterior, posterior and superior portions of the growth that has is occurred in the last three years. However three years ago they cut out tumour that hadn't as yet invaded important areas of the brain, (those bits were left in). this time however, they are planning on resecting the SMA because it has been invaded in its entirety now. I knew something had happened because of how useless my left hand is a lot of the time. So in the consultation i was told that i would leave surgery with a deficit in my left side. the extent of which was unpredictable, varying from lack of control and clumsiness of the left side to the complete inability to use that side. however this effect should be temporary. Post Operati