Feb 27, 2022 | STORIES
Introduction A diagnosis of a brain tumour is likely to prove stressful for everyone involved. Roles are likely to change too and with change comes stress. Some people will show a commitment to the patient, while others will drift away from the patient’s life....
Feb 11, 2022 | STORIES
When I was diagnosed with anaplastic astrocytoma in 2010, it was a no-brainer that I would donate my tumour to the tissue bank at RPA. Some months later my brilliant neurosurgeon Brindha Shivalingam told me that a medical research project had been able to discover...
Jan 29, 2022 | STORIES
A story about complications is not going to be popular. So, if you’re due for a craniotomy, I’d stop reading. But then again, maybe I’m a good news story? It all depends on how you see this. In May 2017, I had a partial resection of a meningioma where one of the risks...
Jan 29, 2022 | STORIES
My children spent their lives waiting around emergency rooms or at my hospital bedside visiting me, while I recovered from another round of neurosurgery or multiple seizures. The seizures needed to be controlled as I would suffer serious depression because I was a...
Jan 5, 2022 | STORIES
Out of the blue I was diagnosed with a brain tumour. A sore left eye led to an MRI which revealed a large tumour wrapped around my optic nerve, carotid artery, growing from the front of my forehead to the back of my head. Described to me like ivy, it was invasive and...
