Radio Show

I got invited to be on a radio show! On Instagram, a person reached out to me asking if I wanted to be on this radio show - DUH, yes of course! If I can spread out this information

like wildfire, I will! So, I went on last week to California 101.5 FM KOCI to tell my story.

My Story - When I was 18 I was goofing off on the theater stage with a few friends when one of them pulled me off the stage. I fell four feet and broke my fall with my head. I blacked out and was embarrassed beyond belief. I went to the nurse's office, and she cleared me. So, I went to back to my room and went to sleep. When I woke up my entire right side was numb, I kept bumping into things and my balance was off. So, I went back to the nurse, and she took me to a local hospital. The hospital said that nothing was wrong, I must have slept wrong and to just go home and it will wear off. Luckily, my Mom is a very adamant human and demanded a CT scan. We were waiting for the results when the doctor came bursting through the door and said she had to get me out of there and that I most likely had a tumor in my brain. So, I got helicoptered to another hospital, that questioned why I was even there, there was nothing they could do. So, finally, I went to Barrow Neurological Institute, which is in Phoenix. This is where they told me that I had an AVM, Arteriovenous Malformation, that housed three brain aneurysms within my Thalamus. They told me that there was nothing they could do, that I just needed to live my life. So, that's what I did - a tour across Europe, graduated with a bachelor's degree in Forensic Psychology, was going to law school at the Sandra Day O'Connor Law School until I had my stroke. I don't remember a month of being down there at Barrow Neurological Institute. I don't remember my craniotomy, a.k.a brain surgery. I don't remember my angiograms. I started to remember inpatient rehabilitation. I remember missing my Mom, who was only allowed there from 8 am to 8 pm. I remember the kind and patient nurses who were trying to understand my severe aphasia. And, I remember having Gamma Knife, a.k.a radiation. Slowly and slowly I got better with the help of PT, OT, and Speech Therapy. Now, I work part-time at the Sedona Heritage Museum which has helped me so much with my aphasia. I'm doing pottery at my local arts center, which has helped my right hand open up more. I am alive, which is enough to keep me going!

Below you can listen to my story!

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