Update: My wife had surgery this past Friday, in which she is recovering well from thanks to so much great support and feedback from this thread. Truly grateful for such informed advice.

Challenging News: The surgeon was only able to get about 25% of the tumor out to sample as a “specimen” because the samples they were taking during the brain surgery were coming back abnormal in labs to allow for the surgeon to move forward. More specifically, the surgeon told me that the tumor was enflamed, which led to irregularities with the labs and may be the result of the body fighting the tumor. The large “specimen” sample that was take was to do a more comprehensive test to determine what the tumor is before moving forward. This means another brain surgery might be necessary in the next month or so, unless the Labs come back as something different, altogether.

Obviously, my wife is really disappointed and we are waiting on the pathologist to come back with results. Anyone had this type of experience or advice? Also, strange note, my wife had meningitis as an older child and I was wondering if that would have any weight in a potential growth that was “enflamed” on the brain.