Sheesh...I did battle for a couple weeks earlier this year...at first they couldn't knock me out with plain sedatives, then they put me under with the knock-out juice, and finally they plugged me into the big new CT gizmo at Mayo (avoid, avoid, avoid)...I'm terribly claustrophobic and each new toy is tougher than the last.
Good on you for hanging tough.
Well my first acoustic neuroma in 2001 was cut out after 16 hours of surgery at UAMS in Little Rock,(Did go to the Mayo but they didn’t want to operate) it was a aggressive tumor and was within days of death as you do not have much room in your skull for that kind of growth. Recovery was a uphill fight as all the neck muscles were cut but working out in the gym 7 days a week for 3 years got me back to normal as possilbe, did have total loss of hearing in my Left ear.Speed up to Nov 2020 due to a major issue with what I thought was a Molar problem turned out to be yet another AN this time it had wrapped around many Facial nerves and was inoperable so I elected to go with Gamma Knife radiation and had 5 treatments over a month’s time, the treatments were in and out in 30-40 minutes as I elected to go Frameless, had the HALO the first time and hated it...Currently the tumor is static slight shrinkage 1/10th mm, doing ok but have some lingering radiation effects but holding my own.
Keep up the good fight, not letting this kill me either!
Prayers for you!