This beauty vlogger filmed her own open brain surgery
AN American beauty vlogger, with Stage 3 brain cancer, has filmed her surgery with a GoPro and posted the detailed clip to her Youtube channel.
THIS BEAUTY vlogger really exposed herself — sharing a video of her open brain surgery with followers.
Courtney Elizabeth Warner, 26, who goes by the name Courtelizz1, two months ago revealed to her 135,000 YouTube subscribers that she was diagnosed with Stage 3 brain cancer.
“I have a pretty cool video today,” Warner, who is also a middle-school teacher, says at the beginning of the video of the surgery uploaded last week. “A couple of weeks before my brain surgery, I said that I wanted to film everything about the surgery and everything like that.
“I wanted to show you guys how it was for me, all the way from the beginning, all the way to the end,” Warner, who also posted videos throughout her journey with the disease, says.
At the start of the footage we see a doctor placing a blue hairnet on Warner’s head, filmed through a GoPro attached to the front of her bed. Her mother kisses her forehead before she is wheeled into the operating room.
“I see all these people I don’t know, and it was just nuts, there were all these people and they’re all there for me,” she recalls.
Warner was under local anaesthetic during the operation, meaning she was awake the whole time.
A friend filmed the rest of the operation focusing on Warner’s face so as not to catch her brain in the shot.
Her tumour was in the speech region of her brain and she needed to be speaking throughout so that doctors knew if they hit a sensitive nerve.
Doctors showed her images on flash cards and she was tasked with identifying the pictures.
At one point in the video, doctors trigger a seizure. Viewers see the right side of Warner’s face twitching and she is unable to speak. The seizure stops within a minute but she starts crying as she keeps trying to identify the images.
The footage ends with a final shot of the operation with a subtitle that reads, “This is when they were taking my tumour out.”
Doctors were able to remove 95 per cent of Warner’s tumour and she said they are confident the rest will be treated by chemotherapy.
Warner’s videos usually consist of makeup and hairstyle tutorials but this video has one of the highest view counts on her page — more than 200,000.
This article originally appeared on the New York Post.
