{"id":293,"date":"2006-11-22T11:43:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T15:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killkuato.com\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-04-28T18:15:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T22:15:29","slug":"pre-op-meeting-sbireunion-con-dr-sbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Op Meeting @ SBIReuni\u00f3n con Dr. @ SBI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, November 22, 11:43 PM
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\nDrove from culver city up to Skull Base Institute at Cedar Sinai at 130 today.<\/p>\n

the preop meeting went ok.<\/p>\n

Roxy welcomed us into the office, had to clean some dust off the table in the conference room,
\nthen Matt head assisstant to Dr. Shahinian gave us a debriefing on what was to come,
\nit seemed they were walking on eggshells, and when the Doc came in to introduce himself it is understandable.<\/p>\n

this guy walks around with a whip I am sure-was impatient with his staff somewhat on the orginizational aspects of the meeting, etc.<\/p>\n

He gave the typical risks, loss of hearing, facial nerve, blood clotting, etc, -and proceeded to view my xray MRI that I had packed all the way from Seattle.<\/p>\n

He stated the tumor was a grade 4, described the resection and procedure.<\/p>\n

He appeared to be tired of us asking the question about bleeding if it did occur, and brought up his competitors, and critics “that don’t know about the procedure” etc. IMHO, that stuff should never be mentioned to a pt.<\/p>\n

I mentioned Dr. Jho did it on the East coast-endo resection, and he spoke highly of him and stated that he would even advise people on the east coast to go to him, if they could not make it to CA.<\/p>\n

I was then escorted into another room for ultrasound of carotid arteries and heart circulation.<\/p>\n

This was run by another agency.<\/p>\n

MEDIGOR DIAGNOSTIC,
\nSeemed to have connections with Shahinian.<\/p>\n

Shahinian also educated me to the fact that my numbness on my lips,tongue and nose were from the tumor pressuring against my TRIGEMINAL nerve, not my facial nerve as I had previously thought.<\/p>\n

Facial nerve is strictly MOTOR skills, movement, etc, while the Trigeminal is Sensation, taste, etc.<\/p>\n

I have other thoughts on the whole experience and interactions with Shahinian and the agency as a whole, but I will share that with AN parties interested and those I know from AN support forums.<\/p>\n

-Chopper and Eron-re: post op leg pain, it is due to being down on your side, he pads between the legs, pillows, gel packs etc, but he said “tall people are heavier,” and gave me a blank stare smirk when I asked if Range of Motion could be done on the legs every once in a while during the procedure.<\/p>\n

I suppose the smirk was from thinking that with invasive instruments up my head through the dime size hole-near my cerebellum, they’d be stupid to move me around.<\/p>\n

I later thought that was a stupid question when I imagined my head as a smoothie machine. http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y3eug8<\/p>\n

after the meeting, we drove up to Hollywood and Vine.<\/p>\n

pix posted soon asap when I buy a usb cord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, November 22, 11:43 PM Drove from culver city up to Skull Base Institute at Cedar Sinai at 130 today. the preop meeting went ok. Roxy welcomed us into the office, had to clean some dust off the table in the conference room, then Matt head assisstant to Dr. Shahinian gave us a debriefing on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[48],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}