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The Gift of Life
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Count Your Blessings
By Ashley Young
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
~Grandma Moses
As I sat in a clinic room with my dad, the physician’s assistant held a book open to a picture of the brain. Slowly, he explained I had an unidentifiable mass in my brain causing a condition known as hydrocephalus, or “water on the brain.”
This mass appeared to be in the center of my brain and blocking the passageway where fluid should naturally drain. It caused my brain to swell, and, if left untreated, would cause death. For the past eight months, it had caused vomiting, unbearable headaches and enlarged pupils.
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