Sharing a poem about a certain time in my life...my way of telling my story!

A Discovery

It was over 10 years ago,
I became mysteriously ill,
Seems so long ago,
But the memory haunts me still.

First it was the headaches,
That gripped my head so tight,
Then the dizziness,
Affected my balance and my sight.

Unexplained symptoms,
Led to test after frustrating test,
So many doctors,
And specialists who thought they knew best.

Many months later,
A discovery was finally made,
After an MRI,
My neurosurgeon told me the price I paid.

A tumour in my head,
They called it an arachnoid cyst,
It wasn’t cancerous,
But something the tests easily missed.

Only one solution,
An operation had to be done,
To remove the cyst,
But the waiting was certainly no fun.

But the horrible thought,
Of an operation on my brain,
Filled me with such fear,
That it almost overruled the pain.

It was so risky,
Brain surgery would always be,
I was in good hands,
My neurosurgeon reassured me.

After the surgery,
The pain felt so much worse,
Was it all worth it?
Time would be the usual curse.

It was successful,
At least that’s what he told me,
The cyst had been drained,
In the future I would be pain free.

But healing took time,
And my recovery was slow,
It seemed like forever,
But the pain did eventually go.

Only scars remained,
To remind me of the fear,
A moment in my life,
That I hope will never re-appear…

{©2008 Jan B.}

~Jaime~