During her recovery from surgery, Abimbola Craig said, “I felt like I was about to die.”
She remembers that the lumbar punctures were one of the most excruciating operations. Ten years following her brain surgery, Abimbola Craig shares her feelings about dying.
Actress Abimbola Craig, known for Skinny Girl in Transit, has talked candidly about the grueling operations she underwent following brain surgery in 2014, emphasizing that she truly
believed she would not survive.
She discussed her ordeal when medical personnel determined that she needed surgery to remove a brain tumor in a recent YouTube video.
But the tumor’s excision brought up another problem. Craig realized she was having an adverse reaction to the painkillers not long after the treatment.
“I began to feel weird for four days after the operation, but I couldn’t figure out what was going wrong with me,” she added. I was unable to eat. In addition to losing my appetite and weight, I
was having trouble sleeping. I reasoned that perhaps the potent painkiller I was taking was to blame.”
She discovered the she was having sadness, hallucinations, and insomnia after researching the medication’s negative effects online. She was allowed to transfer to a less potent painkiller after
contacting the doctors, but by then she had already dropped ten kilograms.
Craig remembered the most agonizing procedure—the lumbar puncture—that she had to undergo following her operation.
“I recall going to the ER last time. Mum tried to call my doctor but was unable to do so since I continued to be vomiting up so much. I was performing lumbar punctures at this time; I had four
that day. Spinal taps and lumbar punctures are similar. Because they still didn’t know what had gone wrong with me and believed I had meningitis, they told me to bend over and remove
fluids from my spine,” the woman stated.
Once testing were performed, it was found that she had only picked up malaria while in Nigeria. She started receiving treatment for malaria right away, and she soon recovered.
She went on, “I am still living ten years after my surgery. I’m doing everything I hadn’t imagined I’d be able to do again and I’m healthy. Even before the brain surgery, I believed that I would
not survive. I wasn’t sure if I had meningitis at the time of the lumbar puncture. I truly believed that I was going to pass away.
