[OutOfTheFog]

This is my first post to this site and I need some feedback. I have been sober for 7yrs June 1st, But I'm going through something just a bit more scarier than my stopping the use of alcohol... I've just recently been diagnosed with what the Med pro's call an AVM in my brain and am waiting for surgery to remove it from my brain.......... And I'm scared as hell to be honest. An AVM is in their terms AterialVenousMalformation that was formed during conception of birth 3wks into growth in the womb....... What it boils donw to in layman terms ( me) is I have a 5cm Anurysm in the right side of my head and they have to go in an take it out, a 15hr surgery,not only do I have to go through that I've had test after test since they found it.....
Now how it was found, I had just changed jobs and it was my first day on the new one, when at a 1/2hr before quiting time I slipped on a machine ( I'm a machinist) fallingto the concrete floor on my forehead..... Seeing stars and shaken up, my head within micro seconds started pounding. Thinking nothing of it because of all the stupid things I did under the influence, I went home. My Wife whom is an RN told me I should have it checked out but stubborn as I am I told her if it's not better in the next day or so I will