Actress Abimbola Craig has recalled her near-death experience after undergoing a brain surgery 10 years ago.
Since 2014, the actress has revealed on her YouTube channel that she experienced nausea, insomnia, and weight loss following the surgery.
Despite undergoing multiple spinal taps (lumbar punctures), her doctors were unable to determine the cause, and there were suspicions of meningitis.
Nevertheless, the actress emphasized that she is now in good health, though during the ordeal, she feared for her life.
She wrote: “Four days after the surgery I started feeling weird but I could not explain what it was that was wrong with me. I could not eat. I could not sleep and I also started losing my appetite and started losing weight,” she said.
“I remember my last ER visit. I was still throwing up so much that Mum tried to reach my doctor but could not. At this time I was doing a lumbar puncture, I had four that day. Lumbar punctures are like spinal taps. So they tell you to bend and take fluids from the spine and the reason why they did this is because they still did not know what was wrong with me so they thought I had meningitis.
“10 years after my surgery, I am alive. I am healthy and doing things I never thought I’d be able to do again. I thought I was going to die, not even from the brain surgery. It was during the period of the lumbar puncture, not sure if I had meningitis and all. I literally thought I was going to die.”