A Peoria father underwent a rare brain surgery last year and made a full recovery in just a day.He's telling his story during Brain Tumor Awareness Month, along with a message.Last year, Jonathan Parafiniuk, a husband and father of two, kept getting bad headaches."I had some headaches and took a lot of ibuprofen and then these headaches just wouldn't go away," he said.There was always a smile on his face even though he was misdiagnosed a few times.
She said because of the location of the tumor, doctors performed a rare surgery where Parafiniuk would sit up while under anesthesia."Everything here just falls down because of gravity and that opens up these corridors for us to put these endoscopes in through a small incision and craniotomy this size and take the entire tumor out," Dr. Lee explained.
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