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Julie S. Patient Expert

Panama City, Florida
Blog: http://braintumorjournal.blogspot.com
The Brain Tumor Journal blog (braintumorjournal.blogspot.com) is my mother's story of her 30+ years of experiences associated with meningioma brain tumors . She wrote her story to help others that face the same challenges and disabilities that she faced. She wrote this journal over a period of... Full Bio
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The Move and Surgery by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health By the time they had gotten me downstairs at the BaptistHospital I was in a state of exhaustion. Jack suggested to Julie (our 20 year old dau ... Read on »
Brain Scan and Neurosurgical Evaluation by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Brain Scan Monday morning May 27, 1974 at the BaptistHospital, I was given a CT (computerized tomography) Brain Scan to determine whether I did, ... Read on »
Pre-Senile or Brain Tumor by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health On Saturday May 25, 1974, a neurologist, Dr. Taber, was called to the BaptistHospital to examine me. He wrote in a report about the examinati ... Read on »
Something Needs To Be Done by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health I can hardly remember anything about my stay in the BaptistHospital and nothing at all about the nine shock treatments. I don’t remember having ma ... Read on »
Shock Treatment by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Shock Treatment Little did I know that I was in the Baptist Hospital be given a series of unneeded, unnecessary shock treatments! ... Read on »
Baptist Hospital by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Monday, April 29, 1974 with Eleanor’s wedding just one month away I saw Dr. Huggins a third time. It had already been decided, without my kno ... Read on »
Second Appointment by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Second Appointment I can’t remember very much about the April 17 session but I’m sure I would have talked with Dr. Huggins about the fact that after Daddy died in ... Read on »
What’s Wrong? by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health It all started in the fall of 1973… I was 46 years old. The medication described by the Orangeburg County Mental Health Department didn’t seem to be helping me. ... Read on »
Eleanor’s Wedding – Polly’s Letter by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Eleanor was married Saturday night June 1, 1974 as planned after having to make the decision whether to go on with the wedding or not. I woul ... Read on »
Swimming by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health It was so good to be home again! I was bald-headed, of course, and certainly nothing to look at , so thin with a big horse-shoe shaped scar on top of my he ... Read on »
Strange! by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health I was released from the hospital the next Friday, June 7, after just eight days. Jack came up to drive me home to Orangeburg, but… Before we le ... Read on »
Something Abnormal by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Months later Claire B, my interior decorator and next door neighbor, and I were standing, in what was to become the guest wing of our new house, discussing whi ... Read on »
Four Years Later by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health October 27, 1980, Jack and I bought a lot on one of the Country Club golf course ponds, and I began drawing floor plans for a new house with some special featu ... Read on »
Julie’s Marriage by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Dr. Paysinger dismissed me, September 6, 1975, as my last post-operative appointment for I was “doing exceedingly well” and had, when tested, no sensory or motor deficit. ... Read on »
Rare Tumor? WRONG! by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Somewhere along the line Jack and I were told that the kind of tumor I had was very rare and were given the impression that I would never have another one. Our Orangeburg ... Read on »
Jesus – Lord Over My Convalescence by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health “I’m scared to death to get up here before the congregation like this, but I just couldn’t miss the opportunity to thank all y’all for your many kindnesses and to thank my ... Read on »
Tumor in the Speech Area by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Each of our four children needed to be informed of my condition, a suspected second brain tumor. Three out of the four could come home Saturday. Saturday w ... Read on »
I Couldn't Speak! after My Surgery by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Very soon after my surgery, two of my daughters, Eleanor and Julie, visited me. Eleanor’s notes describing their visit: "Thurs. 5:30 PM after surgery – (Julie was ... Read on »
In ICU After Brain Tumor Removal by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Then at 1:10 P.M., according to Eleanor’s notes, Dr. Paysinger, having finished the operation, came out to the waiting room to give this report: 7:30 A.M. – 1:10 P.M. ... Read on »
Brain Surgery – Operative Notes by Julie S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health “Incision was made slowly with the larger vessels being controlled and coagulated as we opened the scalp. Scalp flap… was wrapped in a warm saline soaked pad and fishhooks ... Read on »
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