An individual’s experience with a lobectomy
Author: Anonymous
I believe your foundation will play a role in improving the public’s perception of this affliction that most people have no idea exist’s. Due to neurosurgery I became afflicted with aphasia. Ten years ago I had a temporal lobectomy to improve my epileptic condition. The surgery was effective, however I was left with a severe case of aphasia. My surgeon conducted tests which indicated that I had two speech centers, one sight in the left and the other in the right temporal lobe. The sight of my surgery was the left temporal lobe. I am left handed so I believed that my dominant lobe was the right. I opted for the surgery. After thirteen hours of neurosurgery in which I was wide awake to enable the surgeons to find my speech center, the surgeon removed leasons that were within an eighth of an inch of my left speech center. The surgery was a success but I was initially left with severe aphasia and dyslexia. After receiving therapy my condition has improved enormously. However, when I initially returned to work as a credit analyst for a bank in the fall of 1980, I could not read due to the dyslexia, consequently I copied other bankers work. This condition improved to a point wherein I was able to apply for a position as a bank examiner for the Federal government. Hopefully my personal experiences may give another individual who has similar afflictions the encouragement to patiently work on with the belief that his/hers aphasia can only get better through a little fortitude.