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Missing school for surgery
Fri, 08/29/2008 - 09:29Comments
Re: Missing school for surgery
Submitted by mamasaw on Sun, 2008-08-31 - 17:02
Hi Angie
My daughter just had surgery in March this year. She has long hair and did not have to have her whole head shaved. Just a little bit. She had a left temporal lobectomy. She did very well and feels SO much better. She had a headache for about a week or so, but really, could have gone to school in a couple weeks afterwards. Good luck, I hope this surgery changes your life for the better!Be brave, you can do this.I hope you have a good support system? I'm so proud my daugther had the courage to go through with the surgery. Good luck dear!
Hi Angie
My daughter just had surgery in March this year. She has long hair and did not have to have her whole head shaved. Just a little bit. She had a left temporal lobectomy. She did very well and feels SO much better. She had a headache for about a week or so, but really, could have gone to school in a couple weeks afterwards. Good luck, I hope this surgery changes your life for the better!Be brave, you can do this.I hope you have a good support system? I'm so proud my daugther had the courage to go through with the surgery. Good luck dear!
Re: Missing school for surgery
Submitted by kazza on Tue, 2008-09-02 - 06:26
Hi Angie,
I'm able to relate to you. I'm on the waiting lists in New Zealand for surgery (our taxes pay for it here so there's a wait) and I'm terrified. It is optional of course although this makes it worse as I don't know if I have the strength to go through with it. All I seem to hear about is depression and the chance of it not working with irreversible effects, leaving me with both the epilepsy AND the side-effects. My condition worsens every year though and am on high doses. I seem to develop immunities to every drug I take so the dose goes up and up and up.... Now if I miss 2 doses in a row I wake up on the floor. They say the knife is the best option now but I really don't know if I can do it
Hi Angie,
I'm able to relate to you. I'm on the waiting lists in New Zealand for surgery (our taxes pay for it here so there's a wait) and I'm terrified. It is optional of course although this makes it worse as I don't know if I have the strength to go through with it. All I seem to hear about is depression and the chance of it not working with irreversible effects, leaving me with both the epilepsy AND the side-effects. My condition worsens every year though and am on high doses. I seem to develop immunities to every drug I take so the dose goes up and up and up.... Now if I miss 2 doses in a row I wake up on the floor. They say the knife is the best option now but I really don't know if I can do it
Re: Missing school for surgery
Submitted by scratch on Sat, 2008-08-30 - 22:17
good luck with your surgery and welcome to our site..............scratch
good luck with your surgery and welcome to our site..............scratch