Post Surgery Recovery time for resection of brain tumor.

[alant12s]

My daughter back in August 8th was brought into the Pheonix Childrens hospital. She had a Craniopharyngioma over 3.2 cm tumor. Her vision had become very poor. They relieved pressure from her eyes by puncturing the syst associated with the tumor. Her vision improved tremendously 20/70 with some near sighted vision as  well as regular vision. She was operated to remove the tumor on October 3rd. The surgeon informed us that it was very successful. He told us that the optic nerves decompressed and he said they weren't as badly damaged as he thought. He had to carefully move the nerves slightly to remove the tumor and also cleaned around chiasm. The day after surgery a nurse ask her if she can see her fingers.  My daughter after squinting Identify the amount of fingers she held up. All MRI's and Cat Scans taken since then has shown no damage to her nerves. She is recovering slowly but consistently since that day. However my concern is that she has no vision that can be identified at present. One of her eyes is still drooping after surgery but is improving. I spoke with other people who had operations similar to hers and said it would take time to have her vision return to them. Based on my daughters 9 hour tedious surgery, how long can it take for her to get some vision back.

Thank you.

[DrNoopurMD]

Hi,

Hope you are feeling better.
The recovery time for brain tumor surgery depend son many factors like the size of the tumor, the general condition of the patient and location of the tumor.
I would suggest you to take it easy for sometime. Just relax and make sure you get good nutrition. If your symptoms still do not subside please check with your operating doctor.

[aleem]

nerves once damaged take time to heal. it depends on person to person and age. months, may be years. in young age healing is faster. its hard to predict. but one thing can be pedicted that is, everything will surely be normal. good nutrition is essential. proper follow up. please do strictly ensure intake of medication prescribed by her doctor.