When speaking out in a new YouTube video, she shared the ordeal she went through after doctors discovered she had a brain tumor that required surgery.
However, removing the tumor led to another problem. Shortly after surgery, she realized she was having a reaction to the pain medication.
She said: “Four days after surgery I started feeling strange, but I couldn’t explain what was wrong with me. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep, I also started losing my appetite and losing weight I thought maybe it was because of the strong pain medication I was taking.
After researching the drug’s side effects, she realized she was suffering from insomnia, hallucinations and depression. After contacting the hospital, she received permission to switch to less effective medications, however, she had already lost 10 kg.
She remembered a particularly painful procedure she had after her surgery, the lumbar puncture.
“I remember my last visit to the emergency room. I kept vomiting so much that my mother tried to contact my doctor but to no avail. This time I had a lumbar puncture, I had 4 that day Spinal taps are like spinal taps They tell you to bend over to take fluid from the spine, and they did that because they still didn’t know what was wrong with me, they thought I was. had meningitis,” she said.
After tests, it was discovered that she had simply contracted malaria during her trip to Nigeria. She was immediately treated for malaria and began the healing process.
She added: “10 years after my surgery, I’m alive. I’m healthy and doing things I never thought I could do again. I thought I was going to die, not because brain surgery, but during the spinal tap period, not knowing if I had meningitis and everything else I literally thought I was going to die.”