How Aneurysm Changed My Life

I have struggled since I was seven with growing pains and two ticking time bombs waiting to go off. I have struggled with people making fun of me, feeling like I’m not good enough because I’m not allowed to do everything. I received the injury when I was seven, I was diagnosed with an Aneurysm and an AVM( arteriovenous malformation). My aneurysm burst causing me to have a cerebral hemorrhage where I was on the edge of death. The doctors thought I would die on the life flight to the University of Iowa the final ditch effort to save my life. There a doctor took the chance on me when no one else was willing too. I got better slowly but better then what doctors thought was going to happen. I was able to walk I wasn 't in a wheelchair, I could talk

The AVM was smaller but it was still there. I went through a second dose of radiation again in 2010. I went through the same steps again, the angiogram this time was okay, nothing bad happened, one of the nurses who mark the pulses on my feet put flowers instead of dots so I had a surprise when I was able to get up, so I was looking forward to something and not the dread the results might bring.The results were that the AVM still remained but was smaller, the doctor performing the angiogram said that he would perform a third dose of radiation and that should take care of the AVM. My doctor didn’t agree at all, I was only thirteen almost fourteen to have that third dose of radiation could harm me and that little bit that remained was less of a concern then what could happen if he messed with it. I went back every year to get a MRI and in 2014 I had yet another stroke from what doctors think is just the glue moving around that holds the aneurysm together that causes me to have the strokes. My doctor told me there was a chance that it could get smaller in the first two years. Those two years have pass and there has been no change, no growth and nothing has gotten