Pt 2

A woman named Sue had a migraine during an MRI and later found out she had a tumor covering 90% of her brain. She needed emergency surgery, but because she was pregnant, the hospital couldn't operate. She was taken to another hospital where there was a 30% chance of survival for both her and the baby. She made it through the surgery and later gave birth to a healthy baby boy. The tumor was not genetic, and she no longer has migraines. Her son is now in first grade. The pregnancy saved her life by leading to the discovery of the tumor. I'm not sure if you've ever had an MRI, but it is a large machine that you end up going inside of. The machine is loud and feels like it vibrates for the entire 30 to 45 minutes that you are inside of it. Now imagine that with a pounding migraine. Anyways, back to the story. During the time that she was getting an MRI, my grandmother and other aunt, Ginger, ended up going to the hospital. When the MRI was over, Sue was sent back to her room to wait for the results. After about another 30 minutes of sitting there talking, it was already 8 o'clock at night. This is when the nurses came in and asked everyone except for Sue and her husband to leave the room. At this moment, people knew that there was something going on because normally the doctors would just give the results with the family in the space. The doctors gave my aunt the results and said that she had a tumor covering 90% of her brain and was in need of emergency surgery that could be done the next day. If the tumor continued to grow, it would cover her entire brain and she would die so surgery was really her only option. Since she was pregnant though and it was brain surgery, North Kansas City Hospital was unable to proceed so they had to take her by ambulance to the University of Kansas Medical Health Center. She was informed there that because of the tumor and again the surgery needed, there was a chance that she would lose her life, the baby's life, or that they both might not make it if there were complications. There was about a 30% chance that they both made it out of the surgery alive. Sue had to actually write a will before going into surgery and made everything going in 10 times scarier for both her and the rest of her family. All of this brought on many prayers from the family over the next 24 hours. In the morning is when everything was really happening. They prepped her for surgery and then took her back to the operating room. The next 4 hours felt like it was never going to end. All of my family was sitting in the waiting room hoping that every time a nurse came out, it was to tell us that she had made it out of surgery without any complications. Finally it was our turn and the nurse was coming to tell us how it went. It was some of the best news followed by some uncertainty. They had said that Sue and the baby in her belly were doing great and in a recovery room. However, they were unsure what caused the tumor and it could be genetic. This meant that they were going to send a piece of it off to a lab. Hours later she was awake and talking again. After a few weeks she was finally able to go home but was on bed rest for the rest of her pregnancy and had to have regular checkups. That September, Sue got the results back saying that the tumor was not genetic and later in that month, on September 27, 2016, she gave birth to a handsome baby boy, Luke. Now they are both doing great and she no longer has migraines like she used to. A few years ago, her checkups were actually reduced to once a year because she had nothing coming back and her brain looked as normal as possible. This year Luke started first grade and is one of the smartest little baby boys that I know. This year Luke started first grade and is one smart little boy. Sue believes to this day that her little boy saved her pregnancy. Now they are both doing great and she no longer has migraines like she used to. A few years ago, her checkups were actually reduced to once a year because there was nothing coming back on the MRIs and her brain looked as normal as possible again. This year Luke started first grade and is one smart little boy. Sue believes to this day that her boy and her pregnancy saved her life. Without the pregnancy, she would have been given medication and sent on her way. However, since she was unable to get the medicine, they did the MRI and found the actual cause of the migraines.