Got a fun medical update from my actual doctor today.
Need to get a more specific MRI zeroed in on the area of my brain/inner auditory canal to determine size and placement of the benign brain tumor. Once that is done, then we'll discuss treatment options. Considering it is causing some issues symptoms wise already, I'd rather get it removed asap. That being said, probably base case scenario regarding a growth in your brain area.
The spine issue is a "degenerative narrowing" of my spinal canal. Considering I'm 36 and don't have any back injury history, I'm more concerned about this long term than the brain tumor, but the doctor definitely wants to deal with the brain tumor issue first, which I understand. I feel like the cause of this issue is going to be more of a mystery and annoyance down the road.
While I'm not really concerned for my mortality due to the diagnosis, I am just super excited that I quit my very cushy job with excellent health insurance a little over a year ago to go all chips in on starting my own educational consulting business, writing a book, and traveling the country to help school systems innovate their learning practices with the technology now available to us. Gave myself three years to make that work. Wrote and published my own book during year one and as I start year two I've already been in a few schools and was contacted by Harvard to apply to their sweet (fully paid for plus living expenses) Educational Leadership Doctoral program, for which I am about a month away from submitting my application.
What are the odds you'd work to get to a very stable and secure place in life, then go against all previously known character traits to quit your job, sell your house, and go with a three year plan of no stability or security and then get diagnosed with a benign brain tumor before you're even half way into your plan?
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