A question asked so often, it seems, by doctors. Is this a standard question? Maybe I’m missing something… It’s definitely one that, once asked, gets my back up. Inside, I cringe in anticipation…I take momentary offence and at some stage feel wounded with the knowledge of having been here before. A De Ja Vu moment of…
I find this line applicable to so many areas of my life. Experience truly does come with time (and age). No matter how much someone forewarns you or tells you about the possible outcomes for any given situation, we all learn from experience. It’ll be a positive or (in most cases) a negative outcome, that…
I had a chat with an acquaintance of mine not too long ago. We have one thing in common, but for different reasons, we’ve both had brain surgery. Therefore, it would set us apart from the rest of the “normal” people around us. We both don’t handle noise very well and therefore dislike an open…
Anything which harms or penetrates the physical matter inside your head would constitute as a cause of brain injury. It can be caused by blunt force trauma to the head, something which doesn’t physically touch the brain itself but a blow to the head, hard enough to cause damage. Or, it can be an act…
Surgery, especially brain surgery, has always left me feeling extreme depression afterwards. It’s not something I can pinpoint (when trying to find a reason for the way I’m feeling) or even recognise when it hits me at first. I’ve often wondered if the anaesthetic has something to do with it… In my mind, I’ve only…
The number of people undergoing shunt surgery over the last while seems to be on the increase. Maybe I see this because of the number of friend requests and follows I’ve received on Facebook as Skyewaters, who knows. You know what it’s like when you buy a new car, for example. The minute you get…
I used to pray that I could win the lottery or that I was born into a family with wealth (probably no more than the next person). Somehow, money seems to be the answer to all our (man’s) problems, especially when we deem life to be “not quite going my way“. Sometimes when I think…
It seriously pisses me off! Sorry for my language but I’m feeling so frustrated not only right now, but for all the other times before. And, all the times I know are still to come. I’ve explained on so many occasions that I’m not good with directions and having short-term memory issues, on top of…
I’ve written quite a few posts about having Hydrocephalus signs and symptoms outside the norm. It really gets to me that if a patient doesn’t fit the statistical norm, then doctors simply switch off. Admittedly, saying this, I know is a generalized statement (it applies to other health issues and things in life too) and…
Do you ever find yourself caught between not knowing if the pain in your head is just a headache, a migraine or the horrible beast, which is Hydrocephalus? I think it’s fairly easy to distinguish between just a normal headache and something more severe. There’s almost a point of escalation you reach, where the pain just…
