I wrote sometime back. My daughter has healed and doing well. The only thing we have noticed, her grown children, myself and others in the family, is the personality change. I realize this is the new her. She did not have a bleed just embolization and camma knife. I know missing with the brain could trigger this. Has anyone else experience this
Carolyn,
Iām not sure I would want to know how my wife and kids would answer that question. I had a major brain Embolization and since then, I am easily confused, get overwhelmed by too many details too quickly, I am significantly more emotional - Iāve been known to cry or at least get choked up at cheesy TV commercials. Iāve gone from being an extrovert to an introvert.
Yeah, Iām not the same as I wasā¦
TJ
3 Likes
Thank you for your reply. This really helped. She also gets overwhelmed.
Take care
TJā¦same hereā¦canāt believe how emotional I have become and how easily I become overwhelmed by too many details or multiple sensory inputs
1 Like
āHas anyone else experience this?ā
Yes, yes and yes. Each surgery has had an impact. Initially I didnāt recognise it. āI havenāt changed, itās everybody else who has changedā¦ā In hindsight, I think I was simply projecting onto others. Itās much easier to see changes in others, but to look at self can be a little (a LOT) confronting. I tried to convince people (and myself) āIām still the sameā But Iām not. Over time I have come to recognise this, not that Iāll openly admit it. But it is a reality that is right there in front of me.
After the initial surgery I tried to get straight back into life as it was. I can remember the day I got out of hospital, that night I went back to work. Dumb idea. Within an hour of being there I was SO unwell. I wanted the human interaction after being couped up in hospital and thought returning would do me good. WRONG. It was all too much too soon, but I couldnāt recognise it and got a bit anti when others identified it for me. The problem wasnāt them, the problem was my acceptance of my reality.
I wouldnāt say I was an extrovert but Iāve certainly become more insular, self protective. I used to be a ādoerā, if something needed doing, Iād do it. Get it done. It was part of my personality. Not anymore, I have to assess, examine then work out if I can. And this is been very foreign and hard to accept. And even today years and years later I still get frustrated that I canāt just āDoā anymore, I still (stupidly) try to and then kick myself for it when I pay for it in agony. That āacceptanceā thing still aināt easy to accept.
Merl from the Moderator Support Team
2 Likes