I've been very very slack about keeping up with this blog and with good reason, it was to chronicle my brain surgery and that was more than a year ago!
So, the good news, I'm absolutely fine. In the past year I've moved to Sydney (from Auckland), gotten a couple of different jobs in that time and made some friends.
With regards to my brain I haven't noticed any issues what so ever. I still have a huge scar across my head but my hair covers that and mentally I feel absolutely fine. No one has commented that I've done anything unusual. In saying that, I've been away from the people I know best (having moved countries and all that). I've had a few headaches but nothing more than the irregular migraines I used to get before the surgery (unrelated to the surgery).
I was supposed to arrange to see a specialist when I got here but that kind of fell by the wayside and life got on top of me. I really ought to schedule it through my GP.
This will most likely be the last post on here as there's not much to say anymore. I don't foresee myself having any more brain surgery so this all becomes a little redundant.
Hopefully you've enjoyed reading this or found it potentially useful if you're going in for surgery, who knows!
Thanks
Richard
Friday, December 16, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Better days
It's been over two months since I had the surgery and at least a month since I noticed any kind of side effects. I'd pronounce myself better. In fact I did and dyed my hair. The wound on my scalp is healed, although there is still a protruding scar and something of a divot in my head.
I've had an MRI and a CT scan recently and both of these went ok. I'll be having an appointment with the surgeon again in about 2 weeks to follow up about these. Basically it's to ensure there's no sign of the cyst and to see if my skull has begun to heal. There's a chance that it never will and that I'll have to be careful as it's only held in place by some small strips of titanium.
Hopefully it's begun to fuse up again as I'd like to get back into mountain biking and snowboarding this coming winter.
In other news I'm moving to Sydney in about 3.5 weeks.
I've had an MRI and a CT scan recently and both of these went ok. I'll be having an appointment with the surgeon again in about 2 weeks to follow up about these. Basically it's to ensure there's no sign of the cyst and to see if my skull has begun to heal. There's a chance that it never will and that I'll have to be careful as it's only held in place by some small strips of titanium.
Hopefully it's begun to fuse up again as I'd like to get back into mountain biking and snowboarding this coming winter.
In other news I'm moving to Sydney in about 3.5 weeks.
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