Elizabeth Fleurisma tears up as she runs her fingers over the scars that map her scalp.
The Long Island mom was stunned to discover at the age of 30 that she had a brain tumor the size of a lime.
She survived a 16-hour surgery and weeks of radiation — yet a piece of the tumor remains lodged in her skull, disrupting her daily life.
“When I came out of surgery, when I came home, it’s almost like I didn’t even know my environment,” Fleurisma, who turns 33 this week, told The Post.
“Sometimes when I’m trying to speak, I’ll forget a word,” she added. “It’s not easy healing from these things or getting back to where you left off.”
Fleurisma, who lives in Centereach, believes her meningioma came from the use of Depo-Provera birth control for eight years.
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