I can’t believe it’s been four weeks since my brain surgery. 4 weeks since they did a craniotomy, removed a piece of my skull, and removed a benign tumor called a meningioma from the area between my hemispheres.
It was a right parafalcine meningioma. Meaning it was growing out of the dura mater around my right hemisphere and taking up space on the right side of my brain.
During the initial consultation in July, my surgeon said:
“Small chance of damaging the brain when we’re doing the surgery. That’s extremely rare. The area where this is at is the frontal lobe, so they’re not as important as motor, speech or other areas of the brain.”
I had the impression that the frontal lobe did some important stuff that I was kind of attached to. So I looked up what the frontal lobe does.
Per the Mayo Clinic:
“The frontal lobes help control thinking, planning, organizing, problem-solving, short-term memory and movement.”
Kind of the essence of Katya!!!
So my biggest worry with the surgery was that I would come out of it and not be me anymore. That some damage would come about and the very reason I had opted to have the surgery now, to avoid future changes to my personality, might be realized in the present if things didn’t go well.
When I came about in the post anesthesia care unit and slowly woke up, I realized I seemed to be me!!
My partner and brother came in and my brother recorded the following adorable video.
(I hope this works. I uploaded this video from my phone and YouTube automatically made it a “Short,” and I see no way to make it a regular video. If this doesn’t work, I’ll try to get on my computer later this week and redo the video. And then I’ll edit this post to include the new link.)
And every day since the surgery I feel like I have been becoming more and more me. My vision, which has been a problem since summer 2023 due to some medication side effects, has improved since the surgery. I still have issues with reading but it’s loads better than it was.
I am grateful to everyone who has supported and believed in me!! This may be hard for some people to believe, but everyone who has taken time out of your lives to read my blog has been an incredible source of support. After years of isolating myself, and decades of fearing writing, I am finally connecting with the world through my writing! And all of you who are taking the time to read are key to that! 😍💜
May you be safe
May you be happy
May you be healthy
May you have peace
May you give and receive love and compassion
May you be free
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