Thursday, July 11, 2019

What Is In My Head?

Two years ago I got the worst news of my life. If I’m going to tell this right I need to go further back. October 2016, I was having these terrible migraines and didn’t know why. We went to appointment after appointment to figure out what was going on. One doctor said it was a head cold that I should just take ibuprofen. One doctor said it was normal for me to get migraines since they run in my family. Then one day I had a 10 out of 10 migraine and my mom took me to another appointment. The doctor did a bunch of tests on me. She told me to flip my hands over really fast so I did. The right one was off a little so she told me she owed me an MRI. Little did I know I was about to get some news. I go in for my MRI like everything is fine.They tell us to wait outside in the waiting room for someone to come talk to us. My mom was starting to get concerned. They pulled us into an office and told me the news. I have a mass in my brain. They showed us the scans and I just shrugged it off. I didn't know what to think. They told us to go back out to the waiting room to wait for the neurosurgeon on call. I didn't know what was going on at this point. I had my mom holding back tears, and my best friend holding my hand. I was perfectly fine. Then I asked "What is a mass?" That's when everything settled in. I have a brain tumor.
I'm going to be posting another part soon. It's going to be about what happened after I found out. I will tell you this, it is benign.

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