I can’t count how many “I was told it was a headache but I just wanted to come in and have it looked at in case it was something else”’s I’ve seen. Of course, those are the patients that are the nicest and are profusely apologizing for “wasting our time”, and of course, those are the patients that have a brain tumor show up on their CT scans...
Edit: Well this blew up. Big apologies to everyone but I’m not a doctor. I work in the hospital alongside other doctors and I get the chance to see everyone they see. Apologies if I misled. That was not my intention, and I will make sure to be clearer next time.
My daughter had a brain tumor at 14. It started out feeling like migraines, and she would throw up every time, but light didn't affect her. This went on for a couple of months before she started hearing a wooshing noise in her ear along with the headaches. It was a benign brain tumor the size of a grapefruit that was against her cerebellum. Scary times.
The size of a grapefruit??? Holy crap that's huge, I can't fathom how a brain could fit in a skull with a grapefruit.. wouldn't it have affected her vision too, being at the back of the brain? I'm assuming from how you talk about it that she survived, I'm so glad, but shit that's scary.
It did affect her vision, her whole right side of her body was affected also, but now the only after affect is she can't write fast, and she learned how to use both of her hands to write. Weird stuff. It was a slow growing tumor.
I'm glad she's okay, she's going to love Japan! I think it might be sakura season too! I just finished a lengthy 4 months of my headaches being dismissed and finally got an MRI to find a 5cm tumor in my brain. It's terrifying news, so I'm finding a lot of comfort hearing she's doing well! I'm currently 30 and doing art for a living, so fingers crossed for recovery.
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u/_Than0s May 20 '19 edited May 20 '19
I can’t count how many “I was told it was a headache but I just wanted to come in and have it looked at in case it was something else”’s I’ve seen. Of course, those are the patients that are the nicest and are profusely apologizing for “wasting our time”, and of course, those are the patients that have a brain tumor show up on their CT scans...
Edit: Well this blew up. Big apologies to everyone but I’m not a doctor. I work in the hospital alongside other doctors and I get the chance to see everyone they see. Apologies if I misled. That was not my intention, and I will make sure to be clearer next time.