Mrs. Kelly's Monster Response

The essay “Mrs. Kelly’s Monster” is about a woman named Edna Kelly who is getting an operation done on her brain by Dr. Ducker. She was born with a mass of vessels in her brain that caused two aneurysms to form.  The mass also caused her to become partly and blind and paralyzed. It had great effects on her life to the point that she had to decide if she wanted to live with a low quality of life with it, or possibly die on the table trying to take it out along with the two aneurysms. The article goes into great detail about Dr. Ducker’s day and how the operation unfolded. It describes the process of the operation down to the anesthesiologist and the the tools he used to remove the mass. The first aneurysm was removed successfully but when Dr. Ducker went to remove the second one, he ran into some issues. The mass that caused the aneurysms actually lied really close to the aneurysm as well as the brain stem which controls heartbeat and breathing. Dr. Ducker took his lunch break and at that point they figured out that Mrs. Kelly would die and the “monster” had won. The article was very interesting but I feel like there was a lot of information that was not needed. The information about the doctor’s lunch was not needed as well as the process of his day before the surgery. It should have focused more on Mrs.Kelly’s life and her journey to the surgery rather than focusing on the doctor so much since he was not the one going through the life changing ordeal.