Neurosurgery from the patient's perspective 11 Articles

by Kimberly Michell

As I look back at the past year, my life has been changed irrevocably. With so many medical professionals telling me they could "all but cure" my cerebral palsy with a simple implant, I began to believe. The implant is cal...read more

by EMoore

This week (July 2, 2007) an article by Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon writing for Time magazine is one of the best I've seen concerning how to deal with sciatica. This is the excruciating painful condition caused by a "her...read more

by Rachel Rooks

I was 18 years old and enjoying those carefree months between high school and college when my life changed forever, and it all happened while eating a Rice Krispie Treat. I was in the car, heading across state with my ...read more

by Shane Graham

Chiari Malformation . . .or Help! My Brain is Escaping. About five years ago I was in a car wreck. I was on the interstate going to visit my mother in the hospital. It was a rainy day and as I topped a...read more

by Bonnie Weikel

Life's big surprise's. What you are about to read happened to me on Oct.10th,2004, 2 months before I was to get married. Imagine gong to bed one night and waking up 21 days later. That's what happened to me. I refe...read more

by Aunt Ruth

Neurosurgery is never something a person looks forward to; however, at the age of 46, I went through my second serious neurological surgery on my cervical spine. Sadly, probably both of them could have been less severe; if...read more

by Shauna Smith

I remember how hot it was in my room in the ICU. All the nurses commented on it when they came in. There must have been something wrong with the air in my room. I had a fan pointed straight at my head, even after my head w...read more

by Mikki Mixon

My body had a mind of it's own. It did what it wanted to do, especially on it's left side. The football size length of our aesthetically white halls of my workplace posed a problem for me. I felt like Atlas, holding up the...read more

by Nora K Anthony

I was fifty-eight and enjoying a walk at the plaza. Suddenly, my vision was distorted. I blamed it on my glasses and never not for a moment stopped to consider that such rapid onset distortion could hardly be the fault of...read more

by Sharon Annetts

you can never be to careful as you do not know whats round the corner. my family and myself found this out last year. i started getting these headaches and i thought that it was to do with the weather as i have never been ...read more

by Kelly B

Hi , i have a story, for a year i kept telling my first doctor something was wrong with my back and she keep telling me it was all in the head and nothing was wrong, so my back kept getting worst i was having a hard time w...read more