Just a girl tryin' to live life after brain cancer… and musings on life, love, fear, hope and survival. GREY MATTERS!
Hospital Life, A Look At Our Broken Medical/Healthcare System, Especially As A Brain Cancer Patient, GBM Awareness Day, and My Experience of A Resident Doctor Acting As the New Mafia
Post-Op I woke up in the post-op room, but I don't remember feeling any pain whatsoever. Frankly, I felt high as a kite! Those were some gooood meds! My whole family was shocked because I was wide awake, cracking jokes and acting as though everything was fine. My surgeon came back to see me and [...]
Oh, Freddy. You really did some damage during that surgery! My 3rd Brain Surgery: 12+ Hours, Boy Am I Glad I Was Asleep! It's officially a week and a half since my 12-hour brain surgery/plastic surgery/infectious disease surgery/whatever it is that just happened to me. I know that there will be several (okay A LOT) [...]
I could probably come up with a more witty, more descriptive title for this post, but the experience of having a seizure is too horrifying to encapsulate in just a word or two. I've now suffered two seizures in my life, just about two years apart from one another. I've had some intermittent "seizure-like episodes", [...]
I don't expect this to be a long post, or even entirely sensical (I'm just a week out of surgery, so be kind). My last post described my upcoming, essentially emergent surgery. So, so much has happened in almost 2 weeks from then. After several days in the hospital, waiting to determine when the [...]
