My Magazine Jun. 2014 | Page 4

4 3 baseball  and  there  goes  most  of   where  my  bone,  instead  of  being  at  a   my  baseball  season  gone,  over   95  degree  angle  like  normal,  was  at  a   some  stupid  mistake.  I  got  a  lot   110  degree  angle,  causing  my  brain  to   of  crap  for  doing  this,  but  I  am   go  in  my  neck.  He  explained  how  I   very  lucky,  because  it  could  have   have  had  this  my  whole  life,  but  they   been  a  lot  worse.     just  now  discovered  it  after  seeing  my     x-­‐rays.  He  started  explaining  surgery,   After  getting  x-­‐rayed  in   the  hospital,  they  jut  told  me  it   if  it  got  any  worse.  But  I  had  none  of   was  a  minor  concussion,  but  that   the  symptoms,  so  surgery  wouldn’t   I  was  very  lucky.  I  don’t   be  done  then.  He  explained  the  2   remember  how  it  all  went,  but   different  types  of  surgeries.  He  could   some  how  they  found  something   either  go  through  the  mouth  and  fix  it   different  about  my  brain,  I  forget   or  go  through  the  back  of  the  neck   if  it  was  from  here  or  in  Decorah,   and  fix  it.  The  only  problem  was  that   but  they  want  me  to  go  down  to   either  one  could  go  extremely  wrong.     Iowa  City  to  see  a  specialist.  I  got   The  one  going  through  the  mouth  was   there  and  I  didn’t  know  what  to   the  most  common  one,  and  he  gave  a   expect.  I  finally  got  called  and  it   percentage  like  90  percent  of  the   was  an  Indian  type  guy  and  he   surgeries  have  gone  perfect.  The   said  he  had  some  bad  news.   surgery  going  through  the  back  was     worse.  It  was  a  35  percent  of  getting   He  explained  that  a  bone   in  my  head  was  very  different,   paralyzed  if  it  went  wrong.  This   causing  my  brain  to  go  partly  in   scared  me  and  I  just  hope  my  brain   my  neck.  I  didn’t  know  what  to   stays  normal.  He  also  said  that  I  have   think,  until  he  started  talking   this  Basilar  Invagination,  which  is   about  surgery.  This  so  called   very  the  spine  and  is  almost  touching   “Chiara  Malformation”,  was   your  brain.  He  then  had  me  do  a