TEEN SPOTLIGHT COURAGE AND MATURITY IN THE MIDST OF ADVERSITY When I reflect on the women I most admire,
A trip to the emergency room at SCH later,
my fourteen-year-old daughter is at the very
she was diagnosed with intracranial
top of the list. This young woman is
hypertension, which is in essence a very
navigating life as a teenager, doing well in
high volume of spinal fluid pressing on the
school and at her other activities, and
brain and optic nerves. She was admitted,
helping out at home, much as other
two spinal taps were performed, and much
teenagers do. The difference between her
investigation into her highly unusual
and other young people is that everything
condition ensued. The MRIs and CT scans
she is doing, she is doing with a brain
uncovered something which remained
tumour.
unnamed by the hospital. It could be a tumour, or it could be nothing, they told us.
In late 2017, at age thirteen, she was
She was stable within a couple of weeks,
complaining of headaches and pain
and was prescribed medication to keep the
shooting into her limbs, followed by double
spinal fluid pressure from rising too high
vision.
again.
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