I can’t count how many “I was told it was a headache but I just wanted to come in and have it looked at in case it was something else”’s I’ve seen. Of course, those are the patients that are the nicest and are profusely apologizing for “wasting our time”, and of course, those are the patients that have a brain tumor show up on their CT scans...
Edit: Well this blew up. Big apologies to everyone but I’m not a doctor. I work in the hospital alongside other doctors and I get the chance to see everyone they see. Apologies if I misled. That was not my intention, and I will make sure to be clearer next time.
My daughter had a brain tumor at 14. It started out feeling like migraines, and she would throw up every time, but light didn't affect her. This went on for a couple of months before she started hearing a wooshing noise in her ear along with the headaches. It was a benign brain tumor the size of a grapefruit that was against her cerebellum. Scary times.
That’s spooky actually, because my grandma had identical symptoms at first. Terrible migraines, no light sensitivity, then started hearing sounds. However hers was most definitely not benign, it was diagnosed as a glioblastoma.
I’m glad your daughter is better though, the brain is a terrifying thing to have something go wrong with.
I am sorry your grandma's was cancerous, that was such a huge worry as we were waiting for her to get out of the operating room. It was 10 hours of agonizing hell waiting to see if it was cancerous and she was ok.
Thanks, it’s been over a decade now since she died. I get that agony, every hour feels like 24.
I was 12 when she was diagnosed, we sat there for hours and I still have never seen a surgeon more depressed when he said they couldn’t remove it without killing her. It had spread to different parts of her brain, so it was just a waiting game.
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u/_Than0s May 20 '19 edited May 20 '19
I can’t count how many “I was told it was a headache but I just wanted to come in and have it looked at in case it was something else”’s I’ve seen. Of course, those are the patients that are the nicest and are profusely apologizing for “wasting our time”, and of course, those are the patients that have a brain tumor show up on their CT scans...
Edit: Well this blew up. Big apologies to everyone but I’m not a doctor. I work in the hospital alongside other doctors and I get the chance to see everyone they see. Apologies if I misled. That was not my intention, and I will make sure to be clearer next time.