Sucks About Your Brain Tumor

A Story About Brain Surgery

De: Shannon Taylor

Narrado por: Robin Haggitt

In September of 2020, while on vacation, Shannon Taylor had a seizure. She was diagnosed with a large non-cancerous brain tumor on her brain stem that night. She spent the next two months awaiting a particularly invasive craniotomy. The tumor was rare, the surgical approach was rare, and the complications were rare. Sucks About Your Brain Tumor tells the story of Shannon’s healing through raw journal entries that update what each month (or so) were like from the medical standpoint.

Shannon is also forthcoming about the depression and anxiety she endured throughout her ordeal, even detailing anxiety attacks as they happened. Additionally, she details what she learned during her two-year recovery, such as the love of community, what she wished she knew going into such a surgery, and what she would have done differently. Although Shannon does not attempt to give medical advice in any way, she wholeheartedly believes in the value of sharing experiences, in the hope that in the community of medical crisis and chronic illness, we can feel less alone.

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