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so that's a scan of my brain. the random white blob in the top right corner is a picture of the ball of blood (hemorrhage) which was in my brain during the summer.

according to the doctors, my brain bled for only 10 - 15 minutes. which is an almost entirely ludicrous concept, despite it being true. consider this - that one teeny tiny blood vessel, out of the bazillions in my brain, stopped doing what it was supposed to be doing for only ten minutes. and this is what happened to me:

1. i puked continuously for three days straight, in airport bathrooms, in hotel lobbies, on airplane seats, and on my dad's jackets

2. i spent five days in hospital

3. i had massive, massive headaches which persisted for about a month

4. i lost half my vision field for a month

5. i couldn't read for a month, and am now the slowest reader on the planet probably

all that trauma and disorientation caused by one tiny blood vessel. what a little bitch.