MY UNCLE PASSED AWAY 8/12/12 FROM GBM IV - HE WAS DX IN DEC. 2011. I WAS ONE OF HIS CAREGIVERS AND HIS PT ADVOCATE. I DECIDED TO JOIN THIS SITE .... TO SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH WHAT WE DID AND HOW MANY PEOPLE THERE ARE WHO SUFFER WITH THIS HORRIBLE DISEASE. I AM ASTOUNDED TO READ SO MANY SIMILAR STORIES AND HEAR THE SAME WORDS AND THE SAME FEELINGS. I HAVE BEEN IN THE MEDICAL FIELD FOR 26 YEARS (IN MEDICAL OFFICES ) AND I HAVE DECIDED TO CHANGE MY WORK...... I WANT TO BE A PATIENT ADVOCATE OR PATIENT NAVIGATOR. THERE HAS TO BE AN EASIER WAY FOR FAMILIES TO GET HELP ......... I HAVE SOME KNOWLEDEGE IN INSURANCE HOSPICE AND LOVE TO RESEARCH. PLEASE CONTACT ME IF I CAN DO ANYTHING FOR ANYONE OF YOU! STAY STRONG IN YOUR FIGHT!
IT IS AMAZING TO ME
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Wow! I really appreciate people like you. I have been diagnosed with a optic nerve meningioma, 3mm small, so far i am ok and doing well. I have to go back for a ct scan November the 26th, it will be six months after I have been diagnosed. The doctors don't think that I need an operation, I also think so since I have improved from the pains I had, without treatment. I could not open my mouth wide, or even to yawn was a problem. Right now i can chew yawn and even sing.
God bless you.
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Hello YellowAngel!
It's really thoughtful of you to change professions and come on this site to help others. My father was diagnosed in April. It's been a rough road. And on top of all of it, I am one of his fulltime caregivers as his wife decided she couldn't deal with it and has left! I'm having a hard time dealing. I am also in the health profession. I'm a therapist at a chldrens rehab hospital so I take care of kids there and then home to care for my father. I love him to death and would do anything for him! It's a horrible disease. He has AAIII.