After doctors found a lesion on her brain, a student decided to raise awareness of awake brain surgeries by having hers performed over Facebook live.
“Horrified” was the first emotion that Jenna Schardt’s parents remember feeling when doctors revealed that their 25-year-old daughter — who had been experiencing sudden seizures and speech loss — had a lesion in her brain that needed operating.
Her surgery, which was broadcast live on Facebook Tuesday morning, has already been viewed over 100,000 times. It begins with Jenna asleep, but as doctors make it into her brain, they begin what’s called “speech mapping” to figure out which parts of her brain control her language. Through prompts on an iPad, Jenna can be seen reading words like “fourteen,” “orange,” “butterfly” and “banana.”
After Dallas Medical posted the full video, comments poured in from friends and strangers beneath it thanking Jenna for agreeing to be filmed. “Watching this surgery has given me hope about my future similar left temporal lobe surgery. What a terrific team of doctors,” wrote Collette Rousseau Shimanek. “This whole experience has been amazing being able to watch, [I] can’t imagine your personal experience,” added Stephanie Wieck.
While some may be resistant to the idea of putting their own surgery on display, Jenna’s mom said she embraced it. “The first thing I said was, ‘I think it’s a great idea because I know they’ll do their very best if they’re [on camera],’” Wendy said, eliciting laughter from the doctors beside her. “I knew they would anyway, but this is something Jenna wanted from the very start.” Her dad, Mark, found that seeing his daughter on-screen brought him “comfort” that things were going well.
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