Have you ever had surgery? What for?

Once it was established I’d suffered a stroke I went into surgery and they set to work on my brain. Then something happened. Another stroke? My brain swelled up so much they had to cut a mouse hole in the back of my skull. Wriggle room. I have a mental picture of my brain, like an accidental bowel movement, oozing out of the hole. I wonder what the human brain smells like? Anyway, the swelling eased, but my brain would not drain. They drilled into the top of my head and fitted a pump. It didn’t work. Then it worked. Yippee! All this took about three weeks and I only flatlined once.