Like I need a hole in the head...
Come Saturday, it will be two years since I had brain surgery to remove a 4-centimeter tumor. It was an 18-hour surgery. When tthe ACU-Eastern New Mexico football game kicks at 6 p.m. Saturday, two years ago I would have been 10 hours into the surgery.
The surgery itself wasn't that bad for me. I was out the whole time, but it was pretty much a 24-hour day for my neurosurgeons. It was the rehab that was tough for me. It was pretty much like being born again. I had to learn to walk again, and everything seemed brand-new for me. It was really strange. Six weeks after the surgery, I had to spend another week in the hospital after coming down with bacterial menegitis. Talk about a pretty tough stretch.
Of course, to make matters worse, seven months after the surgery, I was laid off from my job of 14 years. Fortunately, I'm better now, and this job came along a year ago. I actually moved here two days after going through Hurricane Ike. Yeah, that was a pretty eventful 12-month stretch.
But I'm still going, and that's a blessing. When I was first diagnosed with the tumor, a rare but benign acoustic neuroma, I was given about six months to live without surgery. The only casualty was the hearing in my right ear. Hey, I can live with that.
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