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A couple of things I've just thought of, me being me I have to correct/update myself

The cavernous sinus is not inherently inoperable.  It is in my case due to it being full of tumour which is all wrapped around the important bits.  It's possible for people to get tumours here that sneak in between stuff and can be removed.  So, if you're googling on my behalf and see people who have had ops - well, that's great for them, but not a help for me.  The surgeon I saw has done over 400 skull base tumour removals - so I think if he says it can't be done, we can be pretty damn sure it can't be done.

On the calcifcation and the CT.  Calcified = benign.  However, not-calcified does not = not-benign.  Not-calcified = no idea so let's biopsy.  Having to have the biopsy still doesn't mean we're dealing with bad news.

Finally, my dad the very clever man thought to ask how long the biopsy results take.  Apparently it is 7-10 days at least - that's if it is fairly plain tissue.  If it's more calcified, then they have to dissolve out the calcium first, so biopsy results can take 2-3 weeks.

What that means is all in all I'm living with uncertainty for quite a bit longer.  This is taking a bit of getting used to.  Obviously it was all scary and unknown when I was told, but the expectation was that yesterday I'd get context and information and we'd know what's going on.  Today I'm getting back used to the idea that knowing anything will be quite a while yet...