Actress Abimbola Craig, from Nigeria, talked candidly about her traumatic experience after brain surgery in 2014.
After having surgery, the actress said in a recent video on her YouTube channel that she had nausea, insomnia, and weight loss.
She claimed that after numerous spinal taps, or lumbar punctures, her doctors started to suspect meningitis but were unable to identify the underlying reason.
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In contrast, the actress said that although she was afraid of dying while resolving the issues, she is now healthy.
In her words: “Four days after the surgery I started feeling weird but I could not explain what it was that was wrong with me. I could not eat. I could not sleep and I also started losing my appetite and started losing weight,”
“I remember my last ER visit. I was still throwing up so much that Mum tried to reach my doctor but could not. At this time I was doing a lumbar puncture, I had four that day. Lumbar punctures are like spinal taps. So they tell you to bend and take fluids from the spine and the reason why they did this is because they still did not know what was wrong with me so they thought I had meningitis.
“10 years after my surgery, I am alive. I am healthy and doing things I never thought I’d be able to do again. I thought I was going to die, not even from the brain surgery. It was during the period of the lumbar puncture, not sure if I had meningitis and all. I literally thought I was going to die.
