The AMAVEA association, created in January 2019, to inform the role of progestins in the occurrence of Méningiomes, invites its members to meet in the gallery of the Vanluc painter in Arromanches (Calvados-Normandie).

https://www.lagalerie-arromanches.com/

A meeting to know the role of the association for 4 years, to share its experiences, to inform on meningiomas, about possible treatments, on convalescence after an operation.

Art and neurosurgery

Emmanuelle's words:

I watched a Klimt painting for hours, which was just a reproduction in a magazine. In my hospital room, operated with a tumor in the head, alone, but surrounded by noise, and exhausted, so exhausted, I had trouble thinking, I was almost no longer speaking, and everything weighed. This painting was my link with beauty, appeasement, reverie. And silence.

Being sick is often to be isolated. Especially when our language and movement capacities are reduced. I felt an insurmountable abandonment and isolation, when I myself terribly needed comfort. After countless afternoons of sadness and pain, the nights where we do not know if we slept or not, of mornings where nothing is reborn, where everything is laborious, wearing, I stretched my life by looking at a painting reproduced in a magazine.

The bodily experience of failure and suffering, when it is expressed, is frightening. Munch's cry is scary. Yet it is necessary. It exorcises pain, abandonment, helplessness.

Does art heal us? I don't know. In any case, he soothes. Whoever heals, within the framework of neurosurgery is the neurosurgeon. Not alone, of course, helped by all operating room staff, adequate equipment, drugs necessary for anesthesia, of everything that is not necessarily aware, but which is an extraordinary human channel.

A brain is open, a break -in is committed. This is neurosurgery. You have to cure that, this intrusion, which is necessary to relieve and heal.

Vanluc words: