Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Wide awake during brain cancer surgery - Boing Boing

This fascinating video from the Mayo Clinic explains how 28-year-old Mary Meixner went through "awake surgery" during which surgeons used an intra-operative MRI to target her brain tumor.

At the end of the operation, she slept. Then, she says, "I woke up and I was so excited, and I was like, yes! I'm not dead! I can talk! I can think! Because you never know, right?"

Transcript here (PDF).

(via @thespeachgal)

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Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/09/wide-awake-during-brain-cancer.html

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