User:YoMammasLDS/sandbox

Trying to find information specific to damage to the frontal and midline areas of the human brain's right hemisphere. 3rd sister had a malignant brain tumor removed when 9 years of age, followed by radiation of her head and spinal column, and chemotherapy. Now, fifty years later, sister#2 and I have noticed for some time that the memories of sister #3 are different, sometimes substantially so, from those of sister #2 and mine. It has not occurred to me until now that the differences in our memories are because of damage to her right hemisphere caused by first the tumor (described by the surgeon as being as big around as a man's fist), and the surgery to remove it. Sister #3 reported on 11/9/2012 that there has been some further necrosis in the hole that remains in her brain, caused by bleeding into the space. She has a recent hx of TIAs - transient ischemic attacks - mini strokes. Looking for information on how these events affect her brain function, her ultra sensitivity to remarks that correct or disagree with her "memories," her inability to understand, grasp, remember changes to her world-view.

For example, I shared with the family that 15 years of taking a prescription, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory had injured my kidneys - seriously. Without consulting a doctor, she stopped taking all her pain and muscle-relaxing medicine. She has classified, in her own mind, skelaxin as a pain reliever as well as something which is to be avoided. Three times now, over the past 8 months, I have had a conversation with her in which I told her I still took the skelaxin my rheumatologist has prescribed for me without worrying about kidney damage from it, because it is a muscle relaxer, NOT an anti-inflammatory medicine. She just doesn't get it. And doesn't seem to remember previous conversations about it. Is this because of her brain damage or something else?