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- From: Summer.Klopfenstein@p0.f14.n346.z1.fidonet.org (Summer Klopfenstein)
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- Subject: tumor
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 09:24:01 PDT
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- Your eye is a very complicated system of tissues and nerves. If
- anything goes wrong the whole system shuts down. Your eyes see a
- picture and that picture is sent to the brain (told in a very
- unscientific way) your brain send the picture back in a decoded
- message so you are able to see. These "pictures " are sent on your
- optic nerves.
- Something can go wrong. The nerves from each eye meet behind
- your eyes in the optic chaism. Having a tumor in this area is a
- problem. A tumor in this area is inoperable. Chemotherapy and
- radio therapy are two ways to kill a tumor.
- The solution is a long period of treatments. Some of the side
- effects of these treatments is hair loss and drowiness. The
- emotional side effects is not even comparable to the physical side
- effects.
- The process is followed up by yearly MRI's and visits to your
- local neurologist.
- Going through this process is anything but fun. After 25 radio
- therapy treatments 5 days a week for 5 weeks you get real tired of
- it. The process is long but necessary to kill the tumor.
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