Simone Giertz

Yeah, I was so relieved when I found out that that was what was causing it because I felt like I was going crazy.

But even after surgery, like I woke up and I felt like myself, like everything was, I got no brain injury.

So obviously this is like my experience from somebody who came out of it pretty unscathed, who didn't get any brain injuries and didn't have to do any of that recovery.

It's more just the recovery from like the physical act of somebody cutting your skull open and taking a large chunk out.

No.

Honestly, I'm a bit surprised by how I acted.

Just pausing for you to pour.

You're welcome, editors.

This is like work injury from being a YouTuber.

It's all like freeze if there's audio that comes in.

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I was surprised by how little I was willing to think critically about what my doctors told me to do.

Like, I very early on – the neurologist that I worked with, he was the one who was on call at the ER the day where I came in.

And he was the one who ended up doing my surgery.

And he kind of became, like, my rock in this.

And I just 100% trusted him.

And he turned out to be an amazing doctor and, like, did a great job and was just, like –

So I got so, so lucky.

But I remember my mom being like, oh, but we should like talk about second opinions and like we should try to do more research.

And I was like so unwilling to do that because opening up to the idea that there are multiple ways or multiple things that might be right or wrong was so terrifying.