Brain surgery kinda sucks
It’s taken awhile for this blog post to come together, and I wish I could say that’s because I’ve been out living my life and since surgery I’ve had this amazing burst of energy and I just haven’t had the time, but that’s not really true. Surgery was hard, it was painful, and the recovery took everything out of me. Just as last time I was admitted into hospital the night before, I had to have blood tests done, a chest x-ray to make sure my lungs and heart were all looking good, and an ECG to check that my heart was actually functionally well. Thankfully everything was perfect. My surgeon came and saw me, and he made some last minute changes to the plan. Originally he was just going to go in and widen the posterior fossa and take some more of my C1 vertebra out, and leave the dura patch that had been put in during the first surgery alone. But now he wanted to replace that patch with some of my own dura matar from another section of the membrane (the original patch was synthetic), which