Maria Menounos shares video from the day after her brain surgery
Maria Menounos gave fans a very personal look into her brain surgery recovery on Friday.
The TV host posted to Instagram a video that her friends took of her in the hospital bed just 24 hours after she underwent brain surgery to remove a tumor.
In the video, Menounous was unable to open her eyes and was being fed broth by her dear friend Alyssa.
“This video was taken 24 hours after my brain surgery. I still can’t believe that you can eat and speak normally so soon after. It was hard to keep my eyes open bc i was seeing double at this point,” she wrote.
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“On my 6 month anniversary I wanted to share this so if you are about to go through this you can see with your own eyes what it can be like. Everyone is different...but if I can ease your fears a bit I would like to.”
She then wrote about how her friend Alyssa Wallerce and other friends were by her side every day and made her recovery a much better experience.
In August, Menounos opened up on “Today” about the lingering physical struggles she faces since she had surgery in June to remove the brain tumor.
“I still have a hard time chewing on my right side, because it was on my right side so it affected the trigeminal nerve, which controls all of your face,” she explained to Savannah Guthrie.
“And so chewing here, my jaw, it's just not right yet, little things I can get dizzy moving my head side-to-side, so sometimes I look like I've been in a car accident so I just shift carefully.”
In addition to recovering from her own physical struggles, Menounos is also by her mother’s side after she was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer last year.
The life-changing experiences have caused the former E! News host to change her outlook on things.
“I'm just so much calmer I think, I see things differently," she said.
“I've been able to look back at everything and I did see this all as I gift and I did shift everything into positives throughout this journey,” Menounos said. “Out of every bad thing something good comes if you see it if you open your mind to it.”
