Author name: Nicole

https://youtu.be/Gfv6SzJaJA0 See the video for the latest news.  Video Transcript Hi, Hat Lady Nicole here. No news yet–we’re waiting on the doctors to set the schedule for the surgery. Haven’t heard back on that yet but they are working on my replacement skull plate so that should be done soon– hopefully within the next month. […]

https://youtu.be/6iq1JSVi214 Don and I met with Dr. Alex Bien, a highly-recommended Ear/Nose/Throat doctor with a specialty in middle ear surgery. Much of the appointment was spent going over my medical history in detail (that’s the majority of what I cut from the video, to avoid repetition), as Dr. Bien is very thorough, which Don and

https://youtu.be/T4f5lpsVNhE The oral/facial surgeon will go in after the neurosurgeon and middle ear ENT surgeon to clean up any post-tumor “defects”, or gaps where the tumor currently resides.  Dr. Tiwana is waiting on the new scans that I’m getting this week before he can estimate how much repair work will need to be done on

https://youtu.be/Tf8JSkNBs5w This video explains briefly what we learned this week, at a high level.  Video transcript for tumor update #2 Hi this is Hat Lady Nicole back with an update. We met (Don and I)  with top neurosurgeon Dr. Ian Dunn. He says I most likely have a benign slow growing hemangioma–which is a type of

https://youtu.be/EfXS9DzbtfE See today’s video (https://youtu.be/OTDvdVh5gTc) for the answer. Also, I’ve been asked by several people: “why did you just now get your head checked out?”   Answer: I honestly hadn’t noticed the bump until maybe last year, when it swelled up into a golfball-sized lump and then went back down on its own. Checked with a