She then returned to her holding room and waited. During the first dose, doctors repeatedly asked how she was doing, how she was feeling, and she replied that she was fine. Afterward, they returned to the chamber, adjusting and readjusting her headgear. In the Gamma Knife suite s waiting room, she told reporters that waiting for the procedure during hours of tracking and planning by the doctors was the hardest part of it all. An MRI will be performed in about three months, doctors said, to determine how effectively the tumor has been treated.
Brain tumors die slowly.
Additional procedures may be necessary, but Henry has no fear of the future. I was thanking God. Along with the second patient, she was discharged this morning. Last night, my head hurt a little, but today I feel nothing. I was just combing my hair.