Category: Cavernous Malformations

During Christmas week 2009, I felt tingling and burning in my legs, along with a “creepy crawly” feeling on my waist. I ignored it for a week, until things got progressively worse. By New Year’s Day, I wasn’t able to walk, had a drop foot, and was losing bowel and bladder function. I was brought…

It was April Fools day 2012 and I was sitting in Panera Bread working on some graduate school coursework in the morning. Gradually I began to realize that my hearing was changing, as was my vision, and slowly my left hand stopped working. I put my computer away to try the walk home to my…

Growing up I remember instances of severe head pain as far back as elementary school that self resolved. Years later I became a Nurse and worked in the Emergency Department. I helped care for patients with migraines but somehow remained stubborn in getting my own headaches evaluated. At times I would come home from work…