In the days and weeks leading up to my surgery, I searched the deepest recesses of the Interwebs looking for stories of people who'd had a craniotomy and what their experience had been like. I found tons of medical "patient guides" from hospitals, PDF versions of discharge instructions, and a little disconcertingly, blogs from people with various conditions necessitating brain surgery whose final posts read something like "Tomorrow is the big day! Surgery in the morning!" and they never wrote again. It kind of left a person ill at ease. What happened to those people? Did they die? Is the post operative experience too excruciating to write about? I did manage to find a few brave souls who wrote about their experience and it helped me so much. I vowed that if I was still this side of the grave after my operation, I would come back and tell you how the experience went for me. This entry is mostly general musings and reflections on the experience. Please feel free to read part one of my experience here.
HoldFast, There is another reason why...They had the surgery, things went extremely well, they went back to work and went on with their lives. I wish they would post their success story, but many don't.
My believe is that new AVM'rs should be "Paid Back", but it doesn't always work that way.
You stay strong and keep posting about your AVM journey!