My name is Sophie, I am 38 years old, I am married and I have 2 children aged 4 and 5 years.
I took a Melodia contraceptive pill for about 14 years . Having difficulty having my first child, I followed a PMA course for 1 year with injections of hormone S, ovitrelle etc ... I got pregnant in November 2018. So I made around 5 ovarian stimuli. I gave birth in August 2019 to my son and a second miracle arrived "naturally" since I got pregnant with my daughter in December 2019, she was born in August 2020.

I was in full health, I had never had any health problems I played sports and crunched life to the fullest. On July 2, 2024 I was with me my husband started his first week of vacation and I had a convulsive epilepsy crisis with loss of consciousness for 30 minutes, I woke up in the fire truck in the direction of the CHU. So I am admitted to the emergency room, I have a whole battery of exams (electroencephalogram, scanner, MRI), a meningioma the size of a clementine is detected in the scanner and confirmed by MRI.

I admit in neurosurgery , I am stunned and I think a lot about my children, I'm afraid. I have no knowledge of meningioma. I inquire via the Internet and come across the association's website which helped me a lot in understanding my illness. The next day on July 3 I explain the walk to me I am under Keppra to avoid another crisis and I remain in surveillance for 48 hours in the neurosurgery service. On July 5, I am allowed to go home, I would have an appointment at the end of July with a neurosurgeon so that he could explain the progress of the operation, the various risks and convalescence. We are allowed to go on vacation with children which makes me crazy. The appointment with the neurosurgeon is set at the end of July, my husband accompanies me.

I apprehend a lot. His explanations are very clear and precise, two possibilities are available to me. Either I stay with meningioma and we monitor its evolution every 3 months by MRI. I stay under Keppra because potentially I can redo crises. Either we proceed to his excision. From the moment I knew that I had this mass in the brain I immediately wanted to be withdrawn.

My decision is therefore made I will have my head operated to withdraw this meningioma. The risks listed by the neurosurgeon are frightening, I cried a lot this Monday, July 28, I was afraid of dying and never seeing my children again. The next day I was more serene and found my stake and warrior mind. The date of the operation is set for October 4, 2024. I am hospitalized on 3 in the service of neurosurgery and admitted to the block on October 4 at 1 p.m. The team that took care of me was adorable, professional and showed great empathy ♥ ️.

I wake up at 6 p.m. in the close intervention close surveillance room. I feel good I remember everything I move my legs and I see. The pain is bearable, the internal comes to see me and explains to me that the beginning of intervention was very complicated because I lost a lot of blood but that they managed to remove everything and that everything is fine . I am relieved, I ask to recover my phone to call my mom my husband and one of my sisters. The next day I am back in the bedroom, I can get up, I have the urinary probe. I get back quickly and I feel good. My surgeon visits me on Monday, October 7 and explains to me how it happened. Given my condition he lets me out the same day in order to be able to find my children, I am thrilled. Today I am a post at 1 month post intervention, I am well I resumed running this weekend. My MRI control appointment is set on December 20 and neurosurgeon appointment on January 7.

Everything is not fully finished because there will be a follow -up and control meetings but once the operation has been passed and the confirmation that the meningioma was indeed grade 1 I feel released. I have come much better since the resumption of outdoor activities and sport. So much for my testimony and my personal experience. I hope he can bring a little hope to those who will go through there. I wish you full of courage and strength.

I would like to thank my neurosurgeon and the whole neurosurgery team of the Caen University Hospital. I can never thank my parents enough my sisters my husband my children and my friends so precious to me for all the support they have given me and still bring me to this day.

Caen, November 4, 2024.