When Pat recovered from routine cataract surgery in her right eye and couldn’t read the biggest letters on the vision chart, she was referred to retina specialist Amanda Henderson at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine. An MRI revealed that a tumor was pressing on Pat’s optic nerve. Neurosurgeon Risheng Xu was brought into the case, and he determined that Pat had a #meningioma — a benign, slow-growing tumor — along the skull base region of her brain. Xu performed a long and challenging surgery to dissect the tumor away from the nerve and free it from the blood vessels, which ultimately restored Pat’s vision. Not long after surgery, Pat turned 75 and started living her life: Part 2. #opticnervemeningioma #johnshopkins #neurosurgery