One of my regular readers who has epilepsy, a college student, wrote in kind agreement with me recently about the things people say—seemingly innocuous remarks—that cause us to pause and consider how strange our lives are in the face of living with epilepsy. She said:
Sadly, for some people with epilepsy, brain surgery is a serious, risky reality—often a last resort—and even then, sometimes it doesn't pay off.
During my freshman year when I was deciding whether
to have half of my right temporal lobe removed, two different
people asked me if I was all right (maybe my once-a-week trips to Boston,
bloodshot eyes, or piles of make-up work in the 24-hour room at the
library were giveaways.) On both of these occasions I didn't really want
to go into it and responded that I was just kind of stressed out about
this or that paper. "You'll be fine, it's not brain surgery," they
responded.
Sadly, for some people with epilepsy, brain surgery is a serious, risky reality—often a last resort—and even then, sometimes it doesn't pay off.
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Exactly brain surgery is very complex, serious, complex and often lead to last resort. Very awful story to read about little Bennett's brain surgery. Thank you so much for such informative blog. traumatic brain injury
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