Stressful experience may result in the inception of asthma, exacerbations, and. inadequate control. In this article we explore the relationship between psy-. chologic stress as an exacerbating factor of asthma and the mechanisms through. which this relationship may exist.
That sort of thing takes months or years. As for brain surgery, many last several hours. If done right, the type of brain surgery known as Deep Brain Stimulation takes at least six or seven hours, to implant electrodes in the target area of the brain.
The surgery took about 7 hours. The tumor was inoperable but they removed an outcropping to the left of my brain stem. The surgeon told my wife while I was in recovery that the biopsy would take about 2 or 3 days to analyze but he felt it was a glioblastoma grade 3. Judging by what he could see and by my symptoms.