06/17/2025
For those who do not know I have been sick physically, spiritually, emotionally, whatever… for a couple years. If you know me well I blamed COVID for everything. I had IT 5 times. If there was something to catch, I caught it, like Rocky Mtn Spotted Fever! So fast forward to this year. My migraines, anxiety, and eyesight were the main issues. It got so bad I had to ask customers prices on tags etc. Finally I had had enough and my husband made an eye appt on May 5 and came to work to get me. The optometrist tested me and I was 20/20 and 20/30 on the eye chart. She said this is not an eye problem it’s some kind of medical problem. She made appt for May 8 for me to see an ophthalmologist. He said there seemed to be a lot of pressure and whatever his office saw they made me an appt for a MRI. That was a Mon and Thurs. and by Sun which was Mother’s Day I started seeing and hearing things that weren’t there. For instance I texted Amanda and Brian and told them that there were 30-year-olds in my closet and I meant Tyler and McKynlee. I thought they were in the bottom of my walk-in closet, hiding and giggling and at this point I also didn’t remember going to the eye doctor on Thursday so Brian asked my mom to come get me and take me to Saint Francis ER and get a scan done as soon as possible. My mom picked me up on Monday took me to St Francis and they sent me by ambulance to SLU hospital. On Tues SLU did a scan and I was scheduled for brain tumor surgery Wednesday the next day at 12:30. Yep Tommy Tumor I call him now. You have to remember I don’t remember any of this even though I haven’t had surgery yet. I don’t recall much of anything in May. My surgery got started about two hours late because I’m a hard stick. They ended up putting a line in the top of my foot I guess and the surgery went on for about six hours. My surgeon was amazing and mom calls it a miracle. The tumor ended up being right behind my right eye and was pushing on my optical nerve and I probably would have lost my sight soon if I didn’t start having seizures before that, it was that close to my eye. I say now that it was staring at consigners and customers, and nobody knew it. It was the size of an orange or bigger taking up a lot of brain space and had been growing upwards of 5-10 years. Tommy had even started shifting my brain. I don’t know what that means but it did. So here we are a month out and I’m alive, walking, feeding myself, and seeing. I struggle daily with short term memory and balance and a vicious whole right side head ache. Not all day but everyday. This started after my staples were plucked one my one during an office visit. I think they really need to change their protocol on this and use some sort of Novacaine or something . I will post a couple pics in comments. They are scary and I don’t want them front and center on my page! I am struggling with being thankful it was benign and the surgery was successful. Instead I’m angry it all happened in the first place. I’m trying.
