What Is This Mission: Drain Bamage

By Frank Wodiuk H.

The clash with my back up against a wall was a knockdown dragged out. I lost who I was. Not much of a memory left. All was lost to a traumatic brain injury. My short memory was deleted during surgery. A stroke caused the fight. I knew how to do basic life movement and thought. My life was askew.

I am learning about the new me and how to be nice to me and my support around me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: May 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9781973649984

Frank Wodiuk H.

After recovery of a Traumatic Brain Injury. The uphill assault was taking all of my energies to survive and understand. I was very angry. I was short tempered My language was aggressive. When I was looking at myself knowing who I was , to whom I am becoming. There is a fight to find Me I was lost in my struggle. The reign of fire in the fight I brought down on me. . Standing in the middle of the battle. There was a new me, I did not want to be. I had to be nice to me.

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ISBN: 978-1-9736-4999-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9736-4998-4 (e)

WestBow Press rev. date: 03/12/2019

CONTENTS

Introduction

10/15/2011, 1300

10/28/2011, 2000

11/08/2011

12/18/2011 to 12/202011

12/23/2011

12/26/2011

01/12/2012 2200 Wednesday Night

About 10:00 P.M. Or 2200 Hours.

01/13/2012

11/22/2012, 2330 Hours

03/23/2012 (Error in Date), 1751

01/27/2012, 1730

01/05/2012, 1343

02/16/2012, 2100

02/20/2012, 0900

04/22/2012

04/27/2012, 0230

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07/09/2012, 1157

10/28/2012, 0930

11/01/2012

11/12/ 2012, 1321

11/16/2012, 1417

12/31/2012, 0030

1/1/2013, 0140

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INTRODUCTION

This is a chronicle of reflections from Frank Wodiuk after he had brain surgery for a tumor in the middle of his brain. He was identified as having a brain tumor after developing increasing severe headaches. This led to an MRI which identified the tumor. It was small but because of where it was located, even if it was not cancerous, as it continued to grow it would almost assuredly continue to cause problems. Frank and his wife met with a specialist who did surgery to remove tumors like this. Not only did this specialist do the surgery that was needed, he was known for having developed this surgery. The meeting was brief. The surgeon explained that the tumor was likely to continue to grow. From the MRI, it could not be determined whether the tumor was cancer or not.

The choices were to continue to observe or to have surgery. There may have been a middle choice but neither remember those. As surgeons do, he identified the potential outcomes as surgery with no significant lasting effects beyond recovery to death. Since the tumor was in the middle of the brain, the hypothalamus, there would be incisions through brain to reach the tumor. With that and the surgery itself, there was a risk of possible stroke as well. Frank is usually an all or nothing kind of guy. He looked at the surgeon and asked when the surgery could be scheduled.

The surgery took place on August 11, 2011. Frank worked the day before came home and showered with the special solution he was given to decrease the bacteria on his skin. That morning, he and his wife got up about 3 am to get to the hospital in time for the preparation for the surgery. The surgeon with whom they had met previously came to the pre-operative area, the surgeon who would be doing much of the work under the supervision of the specialist came to introduce himself as well. The doctor who would be managing the anesthesia also came to review Frank’s history. Once he was identified with ID bands and allergy bands, had multiple IVs in place, and everyone had spoken with him, it was time and he was rolled from the preparation are to the surgical suite.

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10/15/2011, 1300

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