Obviously was still in the hospital and healing GREAT. I just wanted to share a picture of the surgery from 2 years ago…
This picture was earlier in the blog, but I just wanted to share it again.
I was doing good then and I’m doing SUPERB today! 🙂
Category: Brain
Brain Operation: Two Years Ago Today
Two Years ago today. This was the day that I was ready and set for the brain to partake in the operation. I wanted to make sure that the Surgeon was going to Tweet me after (or maybe during?) the operation. The message was put on my forehead…
@pcamarata TWEET ME! @darrenlong315
Not much about this entire hospital stay I remember. But I do remember THAT point in time where I had the tweet written onto my forehead. No one told me what it said, just had the picture taken that I saw later…….
Afterwards, I learned that the Doc wasn’t lucky enough to see the message on my head at surgery time. Someone had already cleaned it off before coming into the room! Doh!
The surgery itself was three hours long. My surgeon said 3cm was removed from the left frontal lobe. I now have only ONE Hippocampus (a regular person has TWO of them, but I only have ONE now). The Hippocampus organizes memories and deals with spatial relation.
…..so my brain just deals the memories that it can reach in the time that I am looking for memories??
I got into my room that night and I was howling in pain!
It was thought that I might be weak on the right side. (FALSE)
It was thought I would have temporary speech issues. (Not really… Just answering slow.)
Missing some eyesight. (FALSE)
Did pretty good in all that, eh? 😉
Extreme pain most of the night. I was given OXYGEN to help with the pain.
After all of this and up until the day I left, I have VERY VERY few memories of being the hospital. PERSONALLY, I’m thankful that I don’t remember much. LOTS of others have told me otherwise about the experience.
Main things I do remember… The day I walked IN the hospital and the day I walked OUT of the hospital. 🙂 That is all I NEED to know.
Two Years!
Two Years ago today was the day I arrived at the hospital, laid in the MRI machine to do another one of those brain scans (for the hundredth time) and patiently waited for my surgery.
Next thing… I’m called out of the waiting room and I remember being on the table…
“Okay, get relaxed and we can all be ready to get this underway after you fall asleep.”
“Hold On! What are we doing today?,” I said. “What is the plan?”
Everyone kinda stopped…. Then one person spoke up and explained the whole thing. (I don’t remember a word that was said…)
“Eh… OK. That sounds good. I’m ready. Lets go.”
After that is a long story. Go back to January 2014 and take a look….
I’m still here and FEEL GREAT! That’s all that matters! 🙂
Ah… New Numerical Change
This is the “day after” New Years Day, right? What new year is this now?
Ah, 2016.
What year did this blog begin so that I could write, and you could read, mainly about what I go through pertaining to my brain?
Oh, yeah… 2013.
It has now been TWO YEARS since that Official Brain Surgery of mine, back in January 2014. Pretty good job there, eh? Brain still works enough to let me still blog here. 🙂
What is my plans for 2016?
Stay a volunteer at the hospital.
I had been informed about maybe other things to do as a volunteer for the hospital here in town. I’ll let you know when I get all the facts straightened with that.
Less psych visits. Every-other week instead of every week? She has told me that she believes my brain has somehow gotten surprisingly better than she would have ever thought it could.
Now what?
I guess I’ll just let you know as I keep going…
Beautiful Monday.
Saw the Psych again today on Monday.
Ate burgers while talking about things which are things that are discussed with a Psych
Before we finished up she tells me…Uh, starting at the beginning of the new year, our schedule is CHANGING.
The First thing is…
We will only see each other EVERY OTHER WEEK.
The Second thing is…
The day of the week where everything is scheduled to happen, has changed! I am not lucky, and now I have to “change”. She “just learned” that she will be busy at noontime on Mondays. I asked:
“What about 1 o’clock on Monday?”
“No. I’m busy then too….”
Soooo…. Next year it will be: EVERY OTHER WEEK on TUESDAY?? Geeze!
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