Personal Narrative: A Life Changing Experience With Brain Surgery

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Life changing Experience Every day you hear of people having some sort of surgery on their body. Well can you imagine having a brain surgery? Well I’ve actually experienced it, and I’m going to tell you how it all started. A soft cough and I felt a soft pain; then, I sneeze and I feel a sharper pain. At first, these symptoms did not mean much to me and I never thought much about them, but who knew that one minor car accident would trigger and lead to multiple MRI’s? That minor accident I was involved in was a blessing for me because two years ago I was diagnosed with a brain malformation. Later I became aware that I was born with it and it is rare. Most people are not aware of Chiari Malformation, a chronic illness that affects the cerebellum it has been unnoticed for years. I became aware one day at children’s hospital. One day after a series of multiple MRI’S and hours of being at the hospital. As me and my mom are getting ready to leave the hospital I hear her phone ring, and it’s the Neurosurgeon calling to tell my mom that I needed to come back immediately to discuss a urgent procedure. We go back up and the woman starts talking then calmly explains to me and my mom what exactly was going on. Then she asked me …show more content…

That day I felt one of the most excruciating pains in my life. This particular surgery involved making a cut in the back of my head and surgically removing a piece at the bottom of the skull; therefore I could not move any part of my body, and I was also in ICU the first few days. My family was so emotional coming in to see me in that much pain many of them even cried. Until this day I still have few problems such headaches at the back of my neck. Of course I’m still getting treated and monitored for it, because the bone can always grow back. My doctor prescribed me pain medication that I have to take every day for the pain, but at times I have to just sleep them

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