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...
Jan 5, 2022 | STORIES
I never expected my husband to propose marriage when he did. It was the afternoon of June 15th and around us, there was the beeping of IVs and the murmurings of visitors. Every now and then a nurse would speak and a food trolley would rattle as it moved down the...
Dec 10, 2021 | STORIES
I couldn’t wait until 2020 was finished due to continual lockdowns and other issues because of COVID. I missed seeing my workmates and playing soccer with my Over 45s team. Finally, I commenced annual leave in mid-December 2020 and used the opportunity to catch up...
