My badge of honor

Last Thursday at my MRI, I asked to see pictures of my tumor.  I had seen what it looked like before surgery, but hadn't seen a single image since.  And I'm kind of excited to now have pictures of it!!  It's weird, it sort of makes me feel more badass since I actually have evidence of it.  I think I'm proud!  That's probably weird too...  I've been enjoying showing people (friends, that is... not random people! sheesh) the pics.  So, here they are!  And please pardon the quality.  These are pictures of printouts that I got... so low quality, needless to say.

This is it, before surgery on 4/14/11.  This is from a VERY expensive and fancy MRI (and not the kind I usually get), so the image is pretty clear.

This is from last week on 6/14/12.  Here you can see a bit of the hole left behind.  The little bit of white tissue is remaining tumor.

This is another layer of my scan from 6/14/12, which shows more of the white tumor left behind.  But comparing these to the pre-surgery pic, you can tell that they got most of it out.

The red circles were added by me (just to clarify).  And these pictures are always flipped.  My tumor is actually on the right side of my brain, and my eyes are at the top of the pictures.  As you can kind of tell, my tumor is pretty darn deep in my head.  During surgery, they went in through the back and went between the 2 halves of my brain (where you see the line at the bottom of each pic) to dig down in there.

Having these pictures makes me so happy!  I know, I know, I'm weird.  But I'm okay with that.  :)