THE THREE TUMOURS
Awareness of brain cancer
After Effects Following Surgery
Following brain surgery, sometimes referred to as acquired non traumatic brain injury, you can experience changes in yourself due to the means of surgery having to be performed and the location of the brain where you tumour is.
For example in the image below the areas of the brain are defined and the functions of those areas noted;
One of the most common after effects of brain surgery, and indeed in brain tumour sufferers, is fatigue that affect all abilities that are essential for living our daily lives.
Cognitive functions such as reasoning, thinking, planning and organisation are most commonly affected, each person in a different way and different severity.
Memory, short term or long term, can be affected also. In this people can lose the ability to recognise someone they have known for years before, lose chunks of memory.
The senses can be heightened affecting one or more of a persons senses such as hearing, smell, taste or touch this is known as Sensory Overload causing the brain to not be able to process that data as effectively as it could before.
Speech can be commonly affected, there a differing types of which speech can be affected and the first is Aphasia of which there many variations.