Sylvia House was diagnosed with a rare type of benign brain tumor when she was a child. Now 19, she is looking forward to new possibilities after a neurosurgeon at HCA Clear Lake removed the tumor.
Sylvia House prepares to go into Premier High School on her first day of class in September, six months after surgery removed a benign brain tumor that had caused daily seizures."It feels like the goals I have can actually happen now," she says.Whenever someone asks 19-year-old Sylvia House about her goals, she’ll pause for a few seconds — and then tell them she wants to learn how to drive.
DNET tumors are slow-growing and diagnosed predominantly in children. When Sylvia House was 12, her doctors in Nebraska, where she lived with her mother, removed a portion of the tumor, which was lodged in the left temporal lobe, the part of the brain that controls speech and memory. In addition to various medications, that was the extent of her treatment.
House explained how his daughter had been living with the tumor and that after years of being made to feel like she had no options, he was hopeful.From ages 10 to 19, Sylvia House experienced daily seizures that came in variations and without much warning. While some were violent — marked by uncontrollable movement — others were quiet but scary. She referred to one type of seizure she experienced as “the dungeon,” which she describes as being in a “dark room with no one around.
“When you talk to a person who has their head down because they can’t speak to you, you can only imagine how depressed this person is,” he said. “She continued to suffer like that while they were trying to manage her seizures with medication, but that’s kind of a futile attempt.”The difference is like night and day, said Charles House.
“It’s very hard to extrapolate in numbers or anything the kind of gratification you get with this kind of success story,” he said of her progress.In September, House started classes at Premier High School, a charter school for students in grades 9-12 or who are older than age 18 who want to return to school and make up credits.
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