Dr. Chang dropped by to see Josh this afternoon.
He said he was more pleased with the tumor resection than he had imagined. He was actually able to get more tumor than he had thought he was going to based on what he saw on the mapping before surgery.
He said the tumor hit right up against the motor cortex and he was able to clean it all out without touching any motor function. He explained that the reason Josh cannot use his right hand (yet) is because he took out pre motor cortex (basically the tumor) and the pre motor cortex tells the motor cortex what to do. He says the motor cortex is lazy and needs to be trained to do things on it's own.
The seizure spot that he was able to remove was about 5mm from the tumor. The other sites were in another area, too deep.
Dr. Chang was very pleased with how things went.
Pathology results come in a few days.
I asked when he thought Josh would be going home and he said as soon as he could check the 4 boxes on the
"4 Checks to Discharge" board (see below), he could go home.
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