Celebrating the best news after surgery!
20 September 2025
Germany gave us some new hope with laser ablation, a less invasive surgical option to remove the tumour.
When we had the first MRI our heart sank when the doctor said usually they would only consider surgery if they could get 97% and their surgical planning put Mum at only 92%. However, because Mum's also doing immunotherapy, our surgeon called our immunotherapy doctor and decided to go ahead as even opening the blood-brain barrier and removing as much as possible would be beneficial.
After the surgery, the doctor said that it went better than expected and they were really chuffed with how it went.
On Thursday, we had the week follow-up and finally got the removal percentage. 98%!! Best bloody news we could have hoped for 🥳.
Feeling really lucky to have these medical options available to us and that the doctors from different hospitals and had never spoken to each other previously, just worked so completely in with each other and had genuine interest in how the other worked. While in the hospital after surgery, the immunotherapy doctor popped in to give mum her first vaccine of immunotherapy. We now have a 3 weeks off while Mums cells start recognising the remaining cancer cells and get to fighting them!
Home and recovering, its a bit slower days for Mum at the moment but have settled into our own little flat in Cologne which we'll stay put in until we leave in November.