I Can't Believe It Either

I am going to have brain surgery.

Neurosurgeons believe that I have a cavernous malformation in my brain, which is a little cluster of abnormal blood vessels. It looks like a mulberry! That is what hemorrhaged about three weeks ago. It is likely to bleed again at some point in my life if it is not removed, and could potentially cause death [update: probably not death] or other really bad stuff, like seizures [update: or degenerative loss of my left field of vision, i.e. no more pleasurable reading]. So, the best thing to do is to remove it.

Between the hemorrhage and the impending brain surgery, it is like my brain is sprained, so I have to avoid stress and exertion, aka thinking hard. (Sort of funny -- I have been completely obsessed with "hemorrhage" since the the terror attacks of 2001 when "hemorrhagic fever" was bandied about the media so often.)

So, I am going to keep posting stuff about fundraising and nerdy stuff here, but I'm not going to beat myself up any more when I don't do it as often as I'd like.

Thanks to everyone who has been so amazingly supportive -- emotionally, spiritually, giving me rides and food, etc. I feel so blessed to have such amazing friends and colleagues.