Benjamin was “floored by it” when it “suddenly hit [him] again” when he was in New York two or three months later. But when he saw a doctor, the diagnosis was “anxiety.”
By the middle of 2023, Benjamin was unable to talk, “breathless,” and “confused” due to the weekly “attacks.”
He saw “about three different doctors” from “different practices,” but “every single one of them concluded that you have anxiety.”
He didn’t obtain a more complete examination until he ended up in the emergency room at the age of 24. Benjamin’s brain was subjected to an MRI at the hospital,
Which is a medical imaging procedure used to provide fine-grained pictures of organs and tissues. “That’s when I found out that I had two lesions on the brain,” he recalls.
After being assured it was “benign,” Benjamin was informed in February 2024 that the “malignant” “grade two tumor” had been in his brain for “nine or ten years.”
