Typically, Jimbo walks 4-5 miles every day. It keeps him active and provides a mental reset. In early January he started becoming dizzy and unsteady which prevented him from going on his daily walk. This condition went on long enough that he finally contacted a neurologist who requested scans of his chest and abdomen. The day of his scans, Jimbo couldn’t feel his legs and fell. He was taken to Calvert Hospital where an MRI of his head showed lesions on his brain. The results of his other scans taken earlier that day showed additional lesions along the spinal cord and in his lung.
He was lucky enough to find a bed at George Washington University Hospital because the chief neurosurgeon, Dr. Carlos Sanchez, reviewed his scans (while in the operating room working on a patient) and felt confident that he could help Jimbo.
Dr. Sanchez performed the surgery on Jimbo’s brain on Monday, February 10th. The 8 hour procedure successfully removed the large tumor on the cerebellum. The procedure was flawless and there were no signs of excess bleeding for fluid build-up in the area. The biopsy confirmed that this and the other tumors are cancerous. The current assumption is that the primary cancer location is the lung.
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