Cancer Survivor Journey

My aboriginal afterthought of my migraines was in the 2nd brand on the playground. I was accidentally hit by addition acquaintance while they were advancing off the slide. From there on my headaches became progressively worse. During this time I had a bisect daydream of a blush bastard bulging from the bank by my bedroom. I had an acutely top temperature and had to be put in the ablution tub with lots of ice.

I apperceive now this was a aberration from the tumor. By the time I was 11 years old in 5th brand my headaches had become violent. I had an acute case of a cephalalgia already a anniversary with vomiting. I was visiting the doctor at atomic already a week. Assuredly in April of 1992 while in 5th brand I was abrogation for academy one morning and had the worse advance I had anytime had. While traveling alfresco to bolt the bus with my brothers on the accomplish of our abode I began airsickness profusely.

Cancer Survivor Journey

I was brought aback in and put on the couch with a wet rag on my head, shaking, and was claret red. The aforementioned day I was demography to our ancestors doctor Dr. Kevin G. Kelly in Russellville Alabama. Afterwards he was told what happened he angry out the lights in my accommodating allowance and shined a ablaze in my eyes. Afterwards the arrangement I was appointed for an MRI in Muscle Shoals Alabama, I didn't apperceive what an MRI was but I would become actual able-bodied acquainted with it. If assuredly my parents accustomed the after-effects of the MRI they were told I had a accumulation on my brain. I was in the allowance my parents activate arrant and so did I. I absolutely did not apperceive what was amiss I just cried mostly because they did.

We were appointed to go to Children's Hospital in Birmingham Alabama anon afterwards that. We accustomed at children's hospital Friday May 1st of 1992 and had to assurance in at the emergency allowance because it was backward in the evening. I was anon put into the ICU assemblage at children's with approved doses of steroids to compress the tumor. I backward in the assemblage till Monday the 4th if I had my surgery. I had a 12 hour surgery. If I regained alertness afterwards my anaplasty I was on activity support.

The strangest activity I will anytime apperceive was alive up with a tube in my throat. I could not see able-bodied but I could see the nurses about me putting in IVs. I had abundant IVs all over my body. I backward on activity abutment for an bearding bulk of time because I absolutely had no acceptance of time while in ICU. I apperceive I was in ICU for 9 canicule that is all I can acquaint you. Afterwards a while the nurses came and extracted my activity abutment tube (bad feeling). Anon afterwards extracting it my lungs burst and they had to put the activity abutment aback in (worse feeling). For canicule the nurses had to blot fungus from my lungs with suction. During this time my mother abstruse it was absolutely blight that I had.

The blazon of bump was ependymoma

The doctor that had done the anaplasty Dr. Lewis Harris told my parents it was the admeasurement his fist. Afterwards 9 canicule I larboard ICU and went into a approved allowance in children's. I was in the hospital for 6 weeks had abundant MRIs, Physical and anatomic therapy, analgesic taps, and beddy-bye studies. I aswell had to accept a agriculture tube put in my abdomen because I was aspirating my food. I was told I would never eat afresh but I became able to eat a brace of months afterwards I went home and the tube was removed. Afterwards I was appear from Children's I had to yield radiation for 6 weeks 2 times a day.

My mother and I backward at The Ronald McDonald abode in Birmingham during my treatments and went home on weekends. I had to accept approved MRIs till I was 21 and again was cut off from children's because I absent my insurance. Academy was harder but tolerable, and I went to academy a few years at aboriginal for accepted apprenticeship and again for PC accouterments and Software tech. I acknowledge GOD I can authority down a abounding time job and plan as abundant as I want. My alone accurate affliction is my absolute accident of audition in my appropriate ear which I absent anon afterwards surgery. I abrasion a audition aid in my larboard ear.

I am a survivor of blight now traveling on over 20 years. I annual my blessings on GOD who had abounding admirable Christians from Eastside abbey of Christ in Russellville and all over Franklin County praying for me during my time in the hospital. I aswell owe my activity to my admirable surgeon Dr. Lewis Harris at Children's and Dr. Kevin G. Kelly for award my tumor. Being a survivor has not been simple blight never leaves you. It is in the aback of your apperception permanently. I accept met abounding wonderful, strong, and admirable survivors over the years from hospitals such as Children's Hospital, St Jude's Hospital, and Blight Treatment Centers of America. From blight survivor camps such as:

• Camp Smile a mile in Alexander city-limits Alabama
• Middle Tennessee Camp Blue bird
• Camp Bluebird at Decatur General
• Camp Mak A Dream in Gold Creek Montana

I accept absent a lot of my accompany and cried for them but I bethink the admirable memories we had and I wouldn't barter annihilation for what has happened to me. I accept met some of the arch humans I will anytime know. Aswell my mother is a survivor now and I adulation her actual abundant she is a actual able women.

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