Tag: meningioma

I woke up in an ambulance.

I was in Portland, Oregon, visiting my daughter Ayla and her family for Christmas and expecting another fun holiday with the grandkids, making cookies and eating Chinese food on Christmas Day. My husband David had stayed back in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to spend the holidays with his ninety-six-year-old mom.

For several years, I’d been experiencing troubling episodes that I thought were ocular migraines—shimmering lights in my left eye that blocked my vision.