By Mike
After a few phone calls with Charlotte regarding her perpetual headache, I (Mike) called my nurse mom who is my go-to person for most medical questions. Mom encouraged Alicia and I to do whatever we could to get Charlotte to the hospital based on our description of the symptoms. We called Charlotte's good friend Julianna to go and take Charlotte to the hospital.
It was late that night that we got a call back that there was a tumor in Charlotte's brain and that the doctor felt that surgery could not wait. Awful news! This made for a very long night as Alicia began the process of arranging travel and she and I called Sheelagh and Graham.
The next morning well before dawn, Alicia was on the road to the airport. Her travel was fortunately uneventful and she arrived at the hospital before Charlotte went in for surgery. Graham and Sheelagh arrived shortly afterwards.
The neurosurgeon completed the procedure successfully and reported that the majority of the tumor had been removed . . . but . . . but unfortunately, he had confirmed that the tumor had begun to spread like the roots of a weed - bits that were unsafe or too dangerous for him to remove.
This was very hard news to take.
Here is a picture of Charlotte after surgery (taken March 7th, 2013):
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