The beginning

I'll give a little recap for all of you who are unsure about what it going on with Jeff and his health. Last March (2010) Jeff had a CT scan which revealed a rather large tumour in his brain. For all you technical people out there, it was a mature teratoma residing in the 3rd ventricle of the brain. So basically it was a tumour made up of skin, nerve, cartilage, muscle, and hair follicle cells located in the very centre of the brain.

If you look on this diagram you can see where it points to the third ventricle.

Jeff had brain surgery in April 2010 to remove the tumour and recovery was slow. Some complications were seen when he developed Diabetes Incipidus which is basically a sodium problem. After 3 weeks in the hospital in Calgary, Jeff was transferred to the Lethbridge Hospital for another 5 days.

Since then Jeff's recovery has been slow and in July 2010 he was set back by a grand mal seizure. The summer was spent recovering and in September he was back in school and actually doing very well.