Survival
“Life’s funny”. “Compared to what?”
The problem is we just don’t know.
What ‘selfish gene’ caused your angiomas
(Or mine, for that matter)?
Can medical miracles protect the kids?
“Life’s funny”. “Compared to what?”
The problem is we just don’t know.
What ‘selfish gene’ caused your angiomas
(Or mine, for that matter)?
Can medical miracles protect the kids?
Was it Cindy’s idea or mine? I think I was the one who came up with, “You don’t want to hear a neurosurgeon saying “oops!”” She was definitely the one who suggested: “That was cool. Now, can you make her leg twitch?” One of her coworkers offered: “Are you sure she’s asleep?” When I told … Read more
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=168252&picture=patient-in-hospital-room About a week to go. Am I anxious? Maybe. A bit. Yes, I’m anxious. About what? The procedure? No. Not really. It’s way in the future. Abstract. It’s not real to me. Like the third surgery. Throughout the process of draining my CSF (Cerebral Spinal Fluid), before the third brain surgery, I thought they … Read more
I told my hair dresser, Gaye. “I’d like a really really short buzzcut in preparation for the surgeries.” Gaye seemed puzzled. “But why?” “I don’t want the crop circle look.” She nodded. Her son had been through several brain surgeries, and before each one, she shaved his head for him, for the same reasons. She … Read more