My Journey • Complications
12/01/2020
First, I’ll start out with letting you know I am feeling pretty good and have not had any major health issues recently. I had my annual...
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My Journey • Complications • Rehab
02/01/2018
As expected, I did experience some deficits (balance and coordination issues) as the result of the initial tumor surgery. Primarily, my...
In addition to the right side deficits, the surgery also affected my vision – right eye specifically. After surgery, I experienced...
Surgeries • My Journey • Complications
11/27/2017
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...
04/14/2017
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...
03/03/2017
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...
03/02/2017
In addition to not feeling good for a few days, on March 2, I had some pain on my right side, and when I went pee, there was some blood in...
02/14/2017
Your body produces CSF continuously to protect your brain. As you produce more, your ICP goes up. As your brain excretes/eliminates it,...
My Journey • Surgeries • Complications
02/03/2017
The only way to relieve the pressure and test to see what was going on was to put in an External Ventricular Drain (EVD) in my skull....
02/02/2017
Enter a new department to help with my case – Infectious Disease (ID). Dr. Arrieta is the president of the medical staff and division...
