As of this moment... It pains me to say that I am very dissapointed, frustrated, hurt..
My mom was diagnosed on accident of a brain aneurysm, according to Dr. Thomas the size of a plum that is on the left side of her brain that impacts memory/speech, 5+ years ago. He went into her brain about 5+ years ago and said he doesn't think it is safe to remove and it would be safest to just leave the anuerysm alone..which we thought was small, but by his calculations when he went in surgically, it was about "the size of a plum." Fast forward after the surgery, she was put into a induced coma for months due to complications, and then later had to be cut open again due to infection in her brain
He said that the anuerysm would and should not affect her in any way and when it is her time to pass on, it would most likely not be from this and probably old age
Fast forward to now, about a few months ago
Her speech has become distorted, can not write or dial a phone, can not change stations on the t.v, does not even remember who her kids are or remembers taking her medication that she took 10 minutes prior.
Back and forth to emergency with no answers and pushing BEGGING for a MRI to recheck the anuerysm to see if this was impacting her life...low and behold after months of denial by many Washington er doctors to give her a mri, they finally budged to give her one. Low and behold, it is indeed causing it all and it has grown. And some of the doctors there say they all trust Dr Thomas and say they can't even put a clip or coil on it to even AT LEAST stop it from growing, because the know nothing about how to deal with it..
So what do myself and my family do now?
Like a broken record, he said recently and 5+ years ago, and from the research I've came across on him online all sounds so familiar... "if that were my family member, I would not touch it and leave it"
Ok...then what else are we left to do? I'm watching my mother deteriorate slowly every day. Do you know what that's like Doctor? What would you do? Would you just watch your family, your wife, daughter, niece, sister , best friend go from being lively and functional to now not even knowing the day, forgets how to even read a sentence or know your children's name?
I am now looking into someone else, unless you can give us a better idea... As of now,
I wouldn't recommend him. He gave us hope years ago and now it's all gone. I am so dissapointed and hurt. No, the anuerysm isn't his fault... But I can't help but feel something when you told myself and my family years ago at that Washington hospital my mother would be fine in the future and the anuerysm would not cause her any harm, with a very "matter of fact" type of response. It shouldn't have done anything especially considering she did not have any symptoms at all before this was accidentally found. and probably wouldn't if it was left alone.. who honestly really knows that one right? Only God.
I hope you take all this into consideration, and that yes, you may help a lot of families, but you have not helped mine, as of now. And to not even have somewhat of a solution, or a glimmer of hope, especially coming from these doctors, is the most dissapointing part of it all. read more