Tag Archives | Gamma Knife

Thursday, January 14, 2016

By on January 14, 2016 in Joanie's blog

I’m going to try to write in my blog more but my energy level is so low and my fingers so tender that it makes it hard.  I started on a steroid yesterday, so I’m hoping that will help with all those issues. Tomorrow I go in for the Gamma Knife treatment and then a […]

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

By on August 25, 2015 in Joanie's blog

Joanie, Janet, Jen at Mount Pilatis, near Luzern, View of the Matterhorn on rail to the Gornergrat This has been the best of summers.  And this has been the worst of summers.  This has been a summer of joy, of spending time with family, of seeing incredible sights, or taking on hiking adventures and this […]

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Sunday, June 21, 2015

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Joe and I in Kauai- overlooking the Menehune Ponds I came back from a wonderful vacation- ten days in Hawaii- Kauai and Ohua, to face an MRI the following morning.  I woke up Friday morning and headed to the hospital to have the procedure done.  I felt good about it coming back clear but I […]

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Sunday, July 6, 2014

By on July 6, 2014 in Joanie's blog

Joanie- wake-boarding at Rockport Reservoir My head still hurts.  Every now and then I get this wave of motion inside my head.  I pray that it is part of the healing process.  I don’t know the side effects of the radiation treatment- Gamma Knife- that was done in February, about 4 weeks after surgery but […]

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

By on March 5, 2014 in Joanie's blog

We visited the neurosurgeon today and he gave me good advice. Start slowly doing the things you love to do like playing tennis and running. I’m back on the eliptical machine which is low impact but don’t like the idea of my brain bouncing up and down while I run. Our brains have liquid that […]

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

By on February 18, 2014 in Joanie's blog

    A very happy 80th birthday to my Mom, Janet! I have no idea why I am smiling in this picture.  This was a very difficult procedure.  There was a lady next to me waiting to have the same procedure done and she looked very ill.  I couldn’t get her out of my mind. […]

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Saturday, February 15

By on February 15, 2014 in Joanie's blog

Last Tuesday was one of the most torturous days of my life.  I headed to school that morning knowing that at 2:10, at my appointment with Dr. Nibley, I would be given the results to my PET Scan.  All day long, I kept fluctuating between the scan would be clear or that there would be […]

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Sunday, February 9, 2014

By on February 9, 2014 in Joanie's blog

We had some fun Friday night.  We had planned to spend the weekend at Bear Lake but due to the snowy weather, we stayed home.  Joe didn’t want Maggie and Kate to be disappointed so he reserved a room for them at the Marriott downtown.  They had such fun swimming.  Baby Joe, who happens to […]

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