4 Unexpected changes after my injuries (and 5 ways I've adapted to them!)
The brain controls everything, so of course when there's a brain (or spinal cord) injury, the entire body is affected. I've lived with this for nearly eight years now and some adaptations are fairly obvious: using a wheelchair, for example; some of them were unexpected and took some time to figure out how to adjust and adapt to. Here are [#] of unexpected changes and how I adapted to them.
The Keyhole Craniotomy
The thought of performing a brain surgery through a hole the size of a penny sounds like science fiction - but it's possible! This surgery offers a lot of benefits over the traditional "open craniotomy". This isn't suitable for everyone and every type of surgery, but is a groundbreaking surgical technique.
I wrote a memoir
I open with the first instance of my determination to live, no matter the odds; it's definitely foreshadowing. But the focus of the memoir is from January 26, 2016 to July 7, 2017.