>The news that I had not been turned on was a schock as well as a relief. Five miutes later I was a functioning human bbeeing again, not only a shadow of what may have been.
Now I had some great weeks and months ahead. I even went on holiday to Milan together with my 13 year old daughter, which was great, even though we never got our luggage (before the morning we were going home!) and it was rather hot all the time.
During summer, my status as a patient was also moved from Rikshospitalet to Haukeland.
mandag 6. juli 2015
søndag 14. juni 2015
After 14 months I start to feel like a human being again...
Its been a long time without me posting anything on this blog.. but now I will try to get across a rather short summary about what has taken place since I indeed went through the deep brain surgery on April 2 2014.
The operation itself was a success, at least thats what was said afterwards and what I must believe of course. Exhausting it was; probably the fact that it takes about 8 hours will see to that in itself. I had a bad experience at the post operation unit, but I do not believe I can say much about it as I was heavily drugged at the time.
After approximately 1 week I was feeling fit enough to go home. And coming home was probably so welcoming in itself that I felt much better than I really was. Anyway one of the first days after coming home I crashed my car. You may find it strange that I was driving at all at the time, but I as I felt great compared to some weeks earlier and NOBODY had said a word about avoiding it , I did not regard it as a problem. Luckily, I only drove my car into another car waiting for a green light and at such low speed that it only resulted in minor damages on the cars.
Then the true problems occured. Day by day I felt weaker and generally out of shape and having some bad dreams at night; being convinced that the house I stayed in was about to burn down.. This led to at least one new stay at my local hospital (Haukeland). Several doctors checked me but nobody found anything to be wrong. After some more time without any improvement, my regular doctor managed to get me back at Rikshospitalet where I of course was operated. The day after my return there they told me that apparently the power regulating the sensors in my brain had not been turned on after the operation, so that the good feeling I had in the beginning was a sort of placebo effect and at the same time making it very understandable why I had not been functioning well after some weeks (This took place approximately four weeks after the operation).
(To be continued)
The operation itself was a success, at least thats what was said afterwards and what I must believe of course. Exhausting it was; probably the fact that it takes about 8 hours will see to that in itself. I had a bad experience at the post operation unit, but I do not believe I can say much about it as I was heavily drugged at the time.
After approximately 1 week I was feeling fit enough to go home. And coming home was probably so welcoming in itself that I felt much better than I really was. Anyway one of the first days after coming home I crashed my car. You may find it strange that I was driving at all at the time, but I as I felt great compared to some weeks earlier and NOBODY had said a word about avoiding it , I did not regard it as a problem. Luckily, I only drove my car into another car waiting for a green light and at such low speed that it only resulted in minor damages on the cars.
Then the true problems occured. Day by day I felt weaker and generally out of shape and having some bad dreams at night; being convinced that the house I stayed in was about to burn down.. This led to at least one new stay at my local hospital (Haukeland). Several doctors checked me but nobody found anything to be wrong. After some more time without any improvement, my regular doctor managed to get me back at Rikshospitalet where I of course was operated. The day after my return there they told me that apparently the power regulating the sensors in my brain had not been turned on after the operation, so that the good feeling I had in the beginning was a sort of placebo effect and at the same time making it very understandable why I had not been functioning well after some weeks (This took place approximately four weeks after the operation).
(To be continued)
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