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Thank you everyone for all your prayers and kind words. Mom is comfortable, alert and getting very good care at the hospital. She is on pain meds as needed, and steroids to reduce the swelling in her brain. She's not too ambulatory, some loss of left extremity function, but as the swelling is reduced she is regaining her strength on the left. The 2 lesions are grape-size and we are told that Gamma Knife will work well on them; but first she will get three weeks of "whole head" radiation to kill any single renegade cancer cells that might be lurking around her brain. Both types of radiation will cause brain swelling, but "whole head" less so than Gamma Knife, and that is why they want to wait to do the knife - because she already has significant brain swelling from the lesions. After the three weeks of steroids and "whole head," she will then move on to the Gamma Knife treatment. Word from the team of docs is encouraging. And the kindness and sincerity of all your prayers is even more so. Thank you all, and please don't stop now. :-)