Hello,
Most of all I'd like to share information with you to compare with your journey, I feel that this is worth sharing.
Beginning: I was working about 50 hours a week, had a great girlfriend and completely independent from my parents. The headaches I had were from, which i believe, just getting older, I'm 26, and the long hours I worked. (it was fairly unsocial job but it paid well and let me live in NYC comfortably and I thought people really liked me but maybe because I liked me). I was seeing a chiropractor at the time because my back hurt from sitting all day, the doctor recommended that I have a MRI of my neck to see what was going on. That was when there was an incidental finding of a (2.6 x 1.7 x 1.1 right brain Acoustic Neuroma in September 2016). I wasn't really upset because I felt like I was depressed from life anyways so was unhurt. Went to get a MRI with contrast to confirm that what the MRI found was true, yes it was. I took two months off from work to get my tumor removed by Dr. John Golfinos and Dr. Thomas Roland at NYU Medical(Best doctors I could find besides ones in UCLA but I was local based on the research I did, I'd recommend). When i was recovering I thought to myself was the work that I did really "contributing" to bettering myself and as many people as I could. I did everything by the book during my recovery, mostly walking/running, nursing myself back to health(That's all we have at the end of the day). I quit the job I had been doing for years to pursue a change for myself and my path because I feel like the life I had been living was unhealthy and decided to move back in with my mom.
Current Condition: Working a more social job, volunteering, going back to school to learn something new and helping others as much that I'm able to. I'm lucky to only come out the other side of this with a deaf right ear, will I ever go back to feeling like I did? I hope so, I'm trying to keep my chin up through all of this, but I hope to help others on here to help them through this process. Things have changed so rapidly for me, my future looks busy, but I have one question for others on here that's a bit strange. Do you men feel like you'll ever be able to have a girlfriend/family anymore, because I really don't feel it anymore(it sucks).
Let me know if I can answer any questions and I hope that my story helps others through this time of need.
