Simone Giertz

Found out that I had a brain tumor.

Is that not where you're going?

There's something else dark about Mike?

Yeah.

I mean, the reason that I found out was partly because of the TED Talk, because my mom came into town to be there for it.

And my right eyelid was swollen and it had kind of been swelling over a while.

And I even got in comments about it on my YouTube channel.

And I thought it was allergies because I was like, oh, it's just pollen allergies.

It's just affecting my one eye because maybe I sleep mostly on that side.

I don't know.

And my mom came into...

the States and then Vancouver for my Ted talk.

And she was like, Simone, you have to like have a scan or see what's up.

Well, like we have to go to the doctor and she really pushed me to do it.

Cause I was like, I'm fine.

Um, and I had an MRI scan on like 5 PM on a Friday night.

My boyfriend at the time was there and, um,

I remember like halfway through an MRI scan, they kind of pull you out and they inject contrast fluid or this like thing that, yeah, just gives them another type of scan.

And the nurse looked at me in this way and was like, how long have you had symptoms for?

Mm-hmm.