Radiation didn't make me glow.

"Stereotactic radiosurgey" is radiation. It's not just surgery. Radiation is the knife. This isn't regular surgery. 

To top it off, mine had never been done before. I didn't have to pay any money. Instead I had to sign papers that family could not sue if I died. I paid with my life. This surgery was a big gamble. I only had a 20-30% chance of survival. 

CLICK This video is on YouTube. 

It shows that beams of radiation were shot into my head.
Watch this video to understand my surgery. 
The radiation unit was mounted on a robot arm. There was no sliding.

 

This video wasn't available when I had my surgery, but you can see that it is from Stanford, where I had the procedure. A lot of this didn't happen with me. My surgery was before this protocol was developed, but a lot of the actions did happen in my case.

My situation was dire. That needs to be understood. 20% chance of survival was better than the current 0% that I had. I was living for almost two years knowing that I could instantly die if I sneezed wrong and set that thing off bleeding again. I had a vascular malformation in my head, not cancer. I had an AVM, an arteriovenous malformation.

I say that it was no big deal. I'm alive. I wouldn't be saying that if I was dead.  

Updated 7/27/2019