Monthly Archives: January 2020

“Eat, sleep, chill, repeat” - while every teenager was doing something similar to that in the prime of their teenage - my agenda was slightly different. It was “eat, sleep, therapy, repeat”. My stable, almost monotonous, routine had been set and was going quite smoothly (with the seizure-al exceptions), only to be interrupted not once, but a lot more times in the month of December. Only this time it wasn’t interrupted due to the November-reasons (check previous log), it was something on a whole new level which I had never experienced before. The doctors had already been in discussion with…

Aiwa, the trailer seemed to have gotten a great response from you guys, time for the real show to start, don’t you think? Wait for it, wait for it…. Anytime now… well, the last log did start the stone rolling. Let’s keep the momentum, right? Ok, so on the first Monday of December 2016, I had my first embolization. We did not stop there, no breathers, because on the 2nd Monday of December, I had my 2nd embolization. We had thought (and hoped) that the two embolizations would suffice and the AVM would be blocked completely, thereby leaving no sword…

My bone flap’s entire journey was orchestrated by my father who was in Dubai as by now, my Mother was permanently based with me in the hospital. So, how in the world does one get a bone flap, which is quite literally a body part i.e. a portion of my skull, all the way across the Arabian Sea, all over 1930 kilometers. That, my readers, is a fun and learn story. Well, my bone flap was stuck back home in the hospital in Dubai, frozen in Cryo. The first problem was that the hospital didn’t have a Standard Operating Procedure…