When I woke up on the morning of December 13th, 2014, the first thing that I noticed was all the snow. It was coming down in snowballs, not flakes. The next thing I remembered was that I was making yet another trek down to Mass General Hospital that day. Dr. Swearingen, one of the top neurosurgeons in the country for pituitary tumors, was going to be meeting with me that day.
I had just been diagnosed with a pituitary brain tumor a month or two ago. My whole life I’d faced debilitating chronic illness in the form of gastroparesis, hypothyroid, anemia, SVT, POTS, A-fib, orthostatic hypotension, frequent episodes of hypovolemic shock, frequent episodes of passing out, muscle weakness, issues with electrolytes, and more recently, episodes of hypertension, bone loss, Type Two Diabetes, excruciating headaches, and fatigue.
My childhood had been swallowed by my chronic illnesses. Instead of going to school … Find Out What Happens Next