I am Kristelle says “The Kinder on stilts” I am 43 years old I have two daughters, I live in the Gers.

Since 2016 I was discovered a meningioma and a pituitary adenoma as well as a neuroma of the spinal nerve.

In 2018 here is the latest “Mr the neuroma of acoustics” very discreet but grows too quickly for doctors!…

I was operated on April 23, 2019 of meningioma. It was not possible to remove everything because I have meningioma is partly in the sagittal sinus. I was reopened on July 4, 2019 because infection of the scar.

So in January 2020, during an appointment with Doctor Sabatier in Toulouse, I was told a gamma Knife to grill this little invader who elected home on my auditory nerve! I am entitled to my convocation dated July 19, 2020 at 3 p.m. (in COVID period not accompanying I cry from the inside!).

After eating with the girls and my husband (I pass you the front arriving in the room for the night) here I am in front of the door of my room ... A nurse gently leaps me to finish my entrance (paper, etc.). Ah yes they put the catheter around 5 p.m. to me! It would be too long to tell you now ). 

Before taking out she hands me a super shampoo soap that we love (humor of course ) and reminds me that I have to wash before bed ... I go out, the hair that smells iodine (long live betadine ).

I go to bed with the only chamber companion TV .. well obviously I fall asleep around 4:30 am… and around 5:30 am jerk off! The nurse lights the light on me by telling me to go to wash myself . My hair was no longer hair it was straw I should not dry it the nurse put two anesthetic patches on the temples.

7:30 am start of the process. Lit pushed against the wall and armchair put in the middle of the room I sit…. The doctor and the nurse remove the patches once they had settled with their cart containing the frame, screws and company. Before the installation of the frame the doctor presents me a syringe full of anesthetic to put the areas of the screws (I wanted to run away !!). Then he puts the frame at the right height ... She gives him the screws and with 4 hands they start to aim, I am not well at all ... sweat, pain and so on ! So much so that I lose consciousness and the doctor ends up with a shirt wet stress! I think I scared him!

Once the framework in place and I came back in the real world, I wait to come and get me to scan it and measure MRI ... The scanner and very bizarre MRI: I am fixed at the table (the osteopath told me a few months after my cervical and my skull had not loved it at all) but hey, once done, I go back to the room. I wait for 2 hours for the time to calculate the gamma rays area to grill my tumor.

It's time to grill this invader ... Direction the Gamma Knife . Here is the beast! A machine of the same ilk as MRI!

I am installed on the table always the fixed head so that it does not move. Once in the cylinder I am spending music for half an hour ... and it's over! Finally not quite! You have to remove the frame ... I did not know it would be as bad as to put it ... by loosening we have the feeling of tightening the screws !!! (I will not say that I wanted to kill everyone ... No I won't say it !!).

I was brought back to my room where a hot meal was waiting for me (well almost) and water (I had the right to drink water and coffee with straw between the scan/MRI and the gamma). I had a lot of headache and then my jaw I don't even tell you!

I don't even know when I got out of the hospital ... In any case my head was in compote…. So return house on Monday end of the day with doliprane in his pocket and that's all… Tuesday nickel… but Wednesday vertigo! Impossible to get up from the sofa and always headaches ... The same evening I called a magnetizer so that he relieves me and he removed me a little fire from the shelves it did me good ...

Good! Currently I always have headaches, dizziness, vibrations ... etc. I do not regret having made the Gamma Knife but this experience with frame gave me the deep feeling of being a “beast” on which we have experiences. I would just say that you have to have strength and courage to take and since we are warriors we will get there!

Courage to all.