Our main question was, why MD Anderson? The answer was partly MD Anderson, but the biggest reason was this particular surgeon. The chance for extreme, irreparable damage was too great for just any surgeon. Marie needed someone that was so skilled that that they would even attempt, what was about to be explained to us. Also MD Anderson has an operating room called the Brain Suite. The surgeon would have the ability to have an MRI taken right in the operating room. Progress could be followed, and success more likely.
What the surgeon was going to attempt to do was, to take the two hemispheres of the brain and pull them apart, slightly. Pull them apart? Slightly? And then slip down through the brain, while avoiding blood vessels, and reach the tumors. Extract the tumors, pull out of the brain, and push the two hemispheres back together. At least, this is the explanation that I heard. He described this to us, like he was describing, setting up a swing set in the back yard. A little bit of work, but no big deal.
Then as quickly as they had come in the room, the team got up and left. We just sat there, until it struck me, they were done. We got up and walked out of the examining room, walked down the long hallway, and left.
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