Is the glass half full or half empty?

I got the radiologist's report for the MRI from last week.

"Again noted is an enhancing mass lesion in the left cerebellopontine angle. The majority of this lesion is in the cerebellopontine angle, but with a component protruding into the internal auditory canal. The extracanalicular portion of the mass has increased in all three dimensions when compared with the previous study measuring 1.4 AP x 1.3 RL x 1.6 cm SI (previously 1.3 AP x 0.9 RL x 1.3 cm SI)."

In layman's terms: I still have a tumor. It's grown since the last scan taken four months earlier.

As nice as it would have been for it to not have grown, I was also glad to see it grow because it confirmed that I should go ahead and have surgery now instead of waiting longer.

(In the interest of full disclosure, this post was actually written on 1/30/09.)