Hi - just wondering if anyone in Australia diagnosed with MM.  Would like to know your experience - did you go public or private? I am from Brisbane.

Hi Kath I am from Melbourne nearly 43 years old I have had one bypass on the right side and just on the waiting list for my 2nd operation on the left side. There are a few people from Australia on here perhaps you will have more luck if you post in the other section of this forum. I know there is a lady named Della from Brisbane join the facebook group World MoyaMoya day and post there. You can also friend me on facebook Maryanne Maltby or personal message me here. :)
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kath45 wrote on May 21^st, 2013 at 7:37pm:

Hi - just wondering if anyone in Australia diagnosed with MM.  Would like to know your experience - did you go public or private? I am from Brisbane.

Ooh, only just saw this, I'm in Brisbane, kath get in touch with me, I'll pm you too.

maryanne wrote on May 25^th, 2013 at 7:33am:

Hi Kath I am from Melbourne nearly 43 years old I have had one bypass on the right side and just on the waiting list for my 2nd operation on the left side. There are a few people from Australia on here perhaps you will have more luck if you post in the other section of this forum. I know there is a lady named Della from Brisbane join the facebook group World MoyaMoya day and post there. You can also friend me on facebook Maryanne Maltby or personal message me here. :) https://www.facebook.com/groups/145861575578487/om

Maryanne I can't find that group. I may have just friended you though, there's two...

hi im steve im in newcastle AUS just been diagnosed.

Peter from Laurieton NSW - the other half [60 y.o.] had 3 TIAs in mid June and had a stent placed in inner left carotid at John Hunter Hospital Newcastle. 2 months later she had another 2 TIAs and went straight back to John Hunter where her neurological interventionist [Dr Ferdinand Miteff] arranged for a neurovascular surgeon [Dr Mitch Hansen] to do a STA-MCA bypass [his 13th]. Pretty good outcome so far, however it's only been two weeks since the surgery.

Depression seems to be the next hurdle to overcome - hers, not mine, as she is uncertain as to her future .... so I need to devise a plan to get her to the local GP under some other pretext. Needless to say she's had her fill of angiograms and blood letting to last her a while.

We both can't speak more highly of Dr Miteff and his team [including Dr Hansen]. Dr Miteff met us at 1.30am at the hospital on a Sunday morning to make sure we got past the triage nurse at ER and were admitted into the correct ward. He's got my vote for Australian of the Year.