Rupture: A Matter of Life OR Death Page #3

how would you do that with your right hand?

Or you would not be able to?

I think I would be able to, but I can use, like, both hands.

Both hands?

OK, so it helps you.

We're very proud of her, taking all this.

And...

..I guess that's what we parents can do.

Aww, making you cry!

I just felt that if I could go through this process,

and if I had the strength to go through it,

then I can endure anything. I can go through anything in life.

- I can feel his heart beating.

- Aww!

They're very, very...

- They've helped a lot of people in recovery, you know?

- Uh-huh.

I mean, he's just a rabbit.

But he's so cuddly!

'There's something wonderful about victims

'who have been through a major operation.

'They really are eager to start again in life

'and there's this sort of, like, childlike quality about them all.

'There's no more cynicism, there's not a judgement.

'And it's heart-warming to see the joy and the humour.'

When you're walking in the streets and the brain's been bruised

and you see people coming at you from all directions...

WHOOSHING..it's like being in a cinema and you're too close to the screen.

TRAFFIC NOISE The traffic, avoiding, you know, being run over by a car.

Just simple things like that, which are completely normal

and we take for granted when we're... when we're normal.

The brain has a consistency of jell-o,

but it's a fragile,

beautiful, pulsating, kind of a pink structure

with a latticework of very fine vessels coursing around,

with an incredible anatomy of nerves and arteries

and wonderful structures that make up who we are.

You are in the human brain,

you are in the most beautiful structure in the universe,

and that experience is always special.

You realise that you are working close to the artwork of God.

I vividly remember one patient

who had two aneurysms.

We had removed about 80 or 90% of the malformation.

And it was just 10% left to remove.

And the one thing you are always taught

is you leave the draining vein,

the vein that is draining all the blood out, until last.

We cut the vein and immediately that vein, you know,

became engorged with blood and stood up erect and everything,

you know, at that point changed.

And it was the one time in my life I felt that this patient

was going to die on the table.

We just had one chance.

Immediately, we just...with everything we can,

working through a pool of blood, you know, just...almost blindly,

took out the last 10% of arteriovenous malformation.

And miraculously, it was like the clouds parted,

the swelling went down, the bleeding stopped and everything was calm.

Aneurysms do call for a very fine, careful dissection.

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