So, I've been doing some more research on schwannomas, and among my other discoveries...
I learned that there are peripheral nerve surgeons!
Like neurosurgery isn't specialized enough?
Of course, now my question is, if there are such highly specialized doctors as peripheral nerve surgeons, and my hand surgeon had a high degree of confidence that my problem was a tumor of a nerve in my arm, why didn't he refer me to a peripheral nerve surgeon for a second opinion, and for the performance of the exploratory surgery / biopsy?
Rather than who knows how many dollars spent for still having the tumor, having more pain than I did pre-surgery and a loss of feeling in my thumb, had I been referred to the peripheral nerve surgeon, would I now have no tumor, no pain and no loss of sensation?
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Posted by David at November 13, 2006 06:26 PM