Good Luck Mary, I have a meningioma also. Prayers for a speedy recovery.

I wonder how long her dr has been watching it.

I had one diagnosed when I was 39. Opted to have it removed, as it was the size of a large chicken egg, pressing on the speech center of my brain. We figured it was there maybe for about 7-10 years already. No cancer, still slur a little when I'm tired though...

I am in the best of company! I hate to say this but two of my very, very favorite actresses have walked in my shoes with a very scary diagnosis. Liz, your grace showed me the way and Mary, you'll be the one I pin my hopes of success on.

My meningioma was diagnosed at the end of 2001 while alone in an emergency room. I learned that night to not grab a doctors hands and tell him it was messing with my eyes and balance (while sitting). The doc didn't say anything, he just left. Next I know, two men in white jacks are wheeling my gurney away...oh no!!!! God and luck have been on my side as I'd had a CT scan a year before so when they compared the two...wa-la...tumor. The doctor did say that night that mine is benign, too, but my brain tumor is too far back in my head and sitting dangerously close to the carotid artery so surgery to remove it is out of the question. As my first neurologist said to me, "you have a very harmless brain tumor in the worst real estate location in your brain." Yippi for me...NOT! I did have brain surgery to remove the tumor from my optic nerve and save what's left of my vision. Gamma Knife radio-surgery followed brain surgery and almost a decade later, the most I've heard is there's been some "slight" shrinkage...but HEY!...it's not growing. Such comforting words that comfort not at all.

For anyone suffering from a meningioma, check out Meningioma Mommas. Good info and support.

If the pull you from work...fight. We aren't brain dead, just struggle a little more than others...but then, that's what ADA was designed for.

I'm a huge fan of Mary's. Please give my best wishes to Mary Tylor Moore, and tell her she's in my prayers.

I too am a woman that has meningioma tumors of the brain. My case is more complicated, as I also have Multiple Sclerosis. I was told nothing could be done but with no explanation, from my Family Physician, so I never got to see a specialist, and as for my MS Neurologist, he didn't even have the courtesy to inform me. It's very frightening, to say the least. I have a new Family Physician now, and is taking the bull by the horns (so to speak) and is ordering an MRI w/ contrast.

Thank you for this letting me write here on your web site.

Sincerely;

Darlene.