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travelogion9 karma

No brain tissue was removed :) the tumor was extracted successfully . The side effects are tremendous . My priority system change and now I prefer to travel, spend time with friends and family . Things came in prospective very quickly . Actually, I proposed to my gf before the surgery took place and she accepted , so 6 months after the surgery , we hosted 500+guests wedding ceremony . You can check my FB page https://m.facebook.com/travelogion

travelogion5 karma

Hi , not sure who "Deez" is ... If you mean the photo on the post which appears on the picture on my FB page , this is my wife

travelogion4 karma

We climbed Vinicunca, also Montaña de Colores or Rainbow Mountain. It  is a mountain in Peru with an altitude of 5,200 meters above sea level. It is located in the Andes of Peru, in the Cusco Region. You can see some of my pictures that I uploaded on Instagram , my handle is travelogion .

travelogion3 karma

Hi , thank you for your questions! I am not seeking 100% re-covery. The experience changed me completely - psychologically and emotionally . As far as physical shape, I resumed my gym activities and kickboxing practice only a month after the surgery . Again, I am not searching for re-covery , life was more conceptual , flat and one dimensional. Now , life takes place simultaneously all the time, it is more meaningful and every second is worth living ! I run my own business and I started meeting clients 9 days after the surgery , I still had my metal staples , 54 of them on the side where they made the incision. Surgery was done at nyu langone , the neurosurgeon was Dr Jafar Jafar.

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Thank you for asking . Short answer - double vision. Long answer - I did CrossFit . One day we did overhead squats which is squatting with barbell weight above head level. I felt a pinching sensation , shooting electricity like pain. However, I completed the set and thought that after I relax , the pain would go away... It did not . It bothered me for months , I ignored it . I correlated the pain and the possible injury , so i had logical explanation for myself . Then a few months later , I started having nightmares. I would hear a menacing voice which persistently claimed - " you don't have much longer to live !" I would wake up in sweat . I ignored this also . Eventually I noticed that I had double vision and alcohol intake made it worse . My drinking habits were excessive not...Had apointment with opthalmologist who sent me to have a cat scan . Actually , instinctively anticipating the worst , I asked him if my double vision could be due to a brain tumor. This was before the cat scan . He said this was too extreme as hypothesis, and we should rule out other possibilities first. The following day he called my cell phone . " Unfortunately, I don't have a good news for you , you have a large mass right under your brain , you need a neurosurgeon and mri , immediately !