I could not pronounce the word “toothbrush.” I was sitting in the hospital bed, not even able to speak simple words, let alone form sentences.
At this point, I could not see the trajectory of where my life was going to go. All I could see was blackness. I had been dealing with a Spetzler-Martin grade 3-4 brain AVM in the left parietal lobe.
An AVM is abnormal tangles of blood vessels of the brain. It is a congenital condition that many people do not even know about until symptoms occur.
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