Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 10298239)

Took my dad in to the doc early friday morning and found he has a brain tumor. He'll have surgery mon to remove it.

No real details yet and not sure if it's cancer or not until the tumor's out.

All thoughts appreciated.

Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 10298253)

Sorry that you have to deal with this right before Christmas.

Originally Posted by stevieray (Post 10298486)

whoa...May the Lord watch over your father and family.

Rae and I will pray for your father.

Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 10298609)

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Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 10309233)

Update: Dad had surgery mon and everything went well. Surgeon thinks they got everything out and want to do a round of chemo to nuke any leftovers.

Says he'll have to do an MRI every three months until the next of forever just to follow up and make sure no other tumors show up.

As of now the anesthesia has worn off and he has concussion like symptoms. Poor short term memory, math skills (lobe most pushed on by tumor) were poor, and he's very tired. He no longer has any strange emotional or personality issues.


Pappy Rausch will not be behind the wheel or at the stove for a while but everything considered we were very lucky. Doc expects most of these symptoms will go away with time.

We're not completely out of the woods yet but the worst case seems beyond us. We're very lucky...

Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 10313095)

Thanks to everyone. It's appreciated.

Seems simple after walking out of the hospital after fighting the long odds of a difficult surgery. There's a longer and more difficult road back to normal. Long story short we dodged a number of bullets and he's lucky to be here.

The one thing I'd say is that any time someone in your family shows symptoms of a stroke or (early) loss of clarity jump on it.

Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 10298239)

Took my dad in to the doc early friday morning and found he has a brain tumor. He'll have surgery mon to remove it.

No real details yet and not sure if it's cancer or not until the tumor's out.

All thoughts appreciated.

Originally Posted by Mavericks Ace (Post 10313101)

Prayers up. Be well brother. Best of luck to your father.

Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 10313095)

Thanks to everyone. It's appreciated.

Seems simple after walking out of the hospital after fighting the long odds of a difficult surgery. There's a longer and more difficult road back to normal. Long story short we dodged a number of bullets and he's lucky to be here.

The one thing I'd say is that any time someone in your family shows symptoms of a stroke or (early) loss of clarity jump on it.

Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 10325598)

Got some bad news today.

Apparently his form of cancer is not an if but when. They've given us a window of 6 months to 28 months.

Good news is most people with this form of brain cancer don't even find out about it until it's too late to operate on or treat.

He's in good spirits and we're a ****ing stubborn a$$#hole lot. He'll live longer than he's supposed to if he has to grit his teeth.

Now that they know what it is he's in the 3% for even being alive at this point. His surgery should have left him without the ability to function normally. There are people offering him experimental drugs in exchange for care and neurosurgeons wanting to quiz him based on the outcome of his surgery.

This is all, suddenly, news to us as of 1 pm yesterday. When he went in it sounded like standard procedure and when he came out now he's ****ing Dorothy returning from Oz.