The 'Grey's Anatomy' star had several concerning symptoms, but really had to push hard to get an MRI as her doctors dismissed the signs as psychosomatic.
Walsh admits that when she first started experiencing symptoms of her tumor, evenCosmopolitan
, the star said that on some level, she instinctively knew she needed to see a neurologist, and"really pushed" to be referred to a specialist."I had to really advocate, because they don't hand out MRIs so easily, but Iand thank God I did, because it turned out I had a very sizable brain tumor in my left frontal lobe. And three days later I was in surgery having it removed," she said.
Though Walsh was experiencing a range of disturbing symptoms due to her tumor, she says she was initially met with disbelief and condescension."When Iin 2018."And he was very condescending. He was like, 'You're an actress, you're in your 40s, you're not working.'" As an alternative to an MRI, the doctor offered a prescription for antidepressants."I was like, 'Respectfully, I have a mental healthcare professional.
"We're all so socialized to try to self-diagnose, like, 'I'll change my workout, I'll change my diet,'" she told."I'm very proactive and willful and independent, and in the past, even though I played a doctor on TV for years, I was not one to go see doctors very often, other than for my annual OB-GYN appointment. So for me, it was a really big wake-up call to do annual checkups," she said.
"I love the idea of changing the framing around healthcare, and changing it from a reactionary thing—'Oh my god, I'm sick, I have to go to the doctor'—to something more along the lines of preventive care," she continued."We should go get a checkup the same way we go to the gym, just preventively, instead of waiting for something to go wrong."
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