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Opening up the skull again – Surgery #13

So for the last year, I haven’t felt real good consistently.  Most mornings I wake up with nausea, my vision even though I’ve...

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Uncrossing the eyes almost – Surgery #12

For the last year, I have had double vision left to right and up and down. This is due to 6th nerve palsy – my 6th cranial nerve is...

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Checking ICPs – Surgery #11

Since I started back at school in August, each day I woke up with a stomach ache.  It progressively got worse to the point in which I had...

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Gamma Knife – remove some left over tumor – Surgery #10

I had outpatient surgery/treatment on May 31 at San Antonio Hospital to treat some residual tumor tissue that was not removed from the...

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Tube Free! – Surgery #9

On May 1, I had outpatient surgery to remove the stent, the catheter and PIC line.  This actually was the first procedure I had that...

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Lack of Sun and Vitamin D not good – Surgery #8

On April 14 – not so Good Friday – I was supposed to have an easy surgery to remove the balance of the kidney stones and the stent...

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Surgery #7 – Shunt

The surgery to insert the Shunt was performed on March 20.  The good thing about the Shunt surgery, is that I only needed to stay a day or...

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Surgery #6 – EVD Redo

When you have an EVD or any type of device to help your body function for a while you sometimes need to have it changed so you don’t...

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Another Brain Surgery – #5

March 4th was a bad day where I was really sick and I got to a point that my ICPs were so high, that I began to reach a critical level from...

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Kidney Issue – Surgery #4

On March 3, I had a 2 hour kidney surgery at Choc – by Dr Wehbi, one of the best pediatric urologist in the world – to remove...

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