acquired brain injuries.

ABI’s are caused not diagnosed. They are the resultant of many problems and conditions.

In many ways…

mine:

a diagnosis EVENTUALLY with chiari malformation.

brain surgeries :

• Brain Surgeries:
  • full foramen magnum decompression – 8 hours long- December 2013
    • dura cut.
    • several vertebrae filed down
    • descending brain tissue cauterised (“substantial chiari malformation”)

• Burr-hole surgery to remove a benign haemangioma on the left of my parietal lobe. December 2013

• leaking brain fluid…. wakening up in a puddle at home …. then after emergency ambulance transfer to neurosurgical ward again…..many more times….it was scary… December 2013- February 2014

• i didn’t know that brain fluid was clear and should contain no white cells… my didn’t. Meningitis Chemically induced by the surgeries. 8 weeks of having brain fluid (cerebral spinal fluid) tapped off 10 ml/hour day and night. January 2014
• this is a diagnosis of hydrocephalus – as was the “soppy dura” that…