Hello everyone,

Here is the story of my mom operated on December 3, 2019 of a meningioma on the left side at the age of 65.

To locate the story, I will go back to the start of the facts. In the summer of 2017, with my family, we noticed that mom "lost" her head a little. She no longer remembered what we had just told her, she always repeated the same things but since that was not going hard in her couple, we put that on the account of fatigue and an emerging depression. In view of all her disorders (dizziness, memory loss, weight loss), I ask her if she talked about her attending physician. She replies yes. I trust her and we continue to believe that everything will work out when she is separated from my dad and that she will have her house.

Years pass. Until September 2019 when a Sunday, she is very tired and she stays lying all day. My dad does not offer her to take her to the hospital because he would have refused her help anyway. Therefore, my dad warns my brother, who moves, and decides to contact a friend to mom to take her to the doctor on Monday morning.

That morning, the doctor announced to him to hospitalize urgently to take stock given the circumstances. She has indeed lost a lot of weight over the past year. I think she doesn't realize what the doctor tells her.

We are September 30, 2019 when she returns to the hospital. We do not know on this date that she will not come out right away. The announcement of meningioma fell on October 4, 2019 after a whole series of exams. She is sent to consult the Angers University Hospital to see the neurologist who must study the best way to operate. Indeed the meningioma is very large and misplaced (next to an artery) and the surgeon does not know how to do it. There are consultation with several specialists and they decide to try to reduce this "tumor" by giving cortisone. Thing that will work.

She returns to Le Mans with her treatment and waiting. She doesn't even know what happens to her. She lost the notion of time and space. She is very tired. The hospital makes her physiotherapist so that she remains active because she tends to lock herself up and stay in bed all day.

The date of the operation is finally announced to us. It will be December 3, 2019 but the risks are significant. Anyway, we have no choice. You have to have this "thing" removed.

The operation is longer than expected but goes well according to the surgeon. When we will see it near the intervention, the words are confused. A cow corresponds to the window …… and it does not recognize us.

After 1 month at the Angers University Hospital, she is admitted in a rehabilitation center because it is necessary to relearn everything. She no longer knows how to move other than in an armchair, she speaks very difficult and she does not recognize many people.

The rehabilitation center does a great job. She speaks again and almost correctly but she cannot walk again. Standing stands up.

Today , at 66 and after a year in a rehabilitation center, she entered EPHAD because unfortunately, she cannot return home . His new life goes pretty well. I find her fulfilled in this place that she used to rub shoulders (she had worked there and would visit her dad very often before her hospitalization). She talks about it almost normally even if sometimes what she says has nothing. She recognizes us her "old" family but I believe that the whole recent part of memory is damaged. She recognizes my 9 year old daughter but not my 3 year old daughter. She even finds it difficult to remember my husband. However, it recognizes well -known faces.

After there are days with and days without even there she does not recognize us.

Now you have to wait and hope that memory will gradually come back to him. She has a physiotherapist to learn to move without risks. During my last visit, I was surprised to see her get up from her chair without having her face tense.

In any case, she looks happy in this establishment and they make her participate in a lot of activity (realization of pancakes, peeling apples, kitchen of all kinds ...).

Now we will have to be patient.

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