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A brain biopsy
My surgeon turned out to be a bit of a guardian angel. He was available before the oncologist so I went to see him first. He showed me the MRI and talked about how its location in a language region made it impossible to remove. He suggested a needle biopsy and could schedule it the…
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A momentary lapse
“What does a seizure feel like?” I asked my neurologist. He didn’t really have an answer. “Loss of consciousness or confusion,” he said. That’s not what I was experiencing. Words were stuck in my head. I could read them there, but not pronounce them, or I heard them and understood a general gist, but not…