Everything went well with the brain surgeon today.
Confirmed my amateur MRI-interpretation, despite his version having the advantage of some added contrast to highlight the tumor. He thinks we'll want to act no sooner than 3-6 months considering her recovery is still moving along steadily. We'll actually hold off on radiation until either the recovery completes, plateaus, or a new MRI turns up any troublesome growth. Will check in and MRI every 3 months moving forward, and getting referrals to start meeting radiologists and talking approaches/treatment protocols within the next couple of weeks (they could prefer 5 cyber gun treatments over 2 weeks or two within a few days, generally meaning either stronger doses or more drawn out effects). Plenty of time to be thorough.
In the meantime we keep focusing on recovery. Went to her therapies today and was actually pretty surprised at how far along she is physically. The hardest move she can make is to start lying face-down with feet on tip-toes, lift up onto her elbows directly below her shoulders, and plank her entire body straight up past push-up position, then slowly return to the ground. Really wasn't expecting that at all--she'd always struggled to find any position lying face down where her shoulder wasn't in pain and/or danger of popping out of socket.
Next week she starts a new intensive therapy which involves wearing a bungeed rubber suit for 4 hours every day which puts her muscles under constant strain. Something, something, used on cosmonauts after ridiculously long space tours. Should be fun.
Both of us are super-relieved and pleasantly serene ATM. I'm not even particularly bothered that my car blew its turbocharger a couple of days ago, nor that my mother-in-law wants to come for another extended stay.
Das Boot; Sorry about your knee. Good luck!