{"id":2247,"date":"2018-10-20T23:55:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T06:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forourwellness.org\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:20:20","slug":"psychology-student-survives-the-medically-impossible-now-giving-people-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thechicagoschool.edu\/insight\/for-our-wellness\/psychology-student-survives-the-medically-impossible-now-giving-people-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology student survives the medically impossible, now giving people hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

My faith is even stronger and I just feel like at this point if death couldn\u2019t get me then what can?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"By: Essi Auguste Virtanen<\/p>\n

When Trashon Perkins was first told she had a grapefruit sized tumor in her brain back in December 2014, and it would be likely she might not make it, she was willing to accept it.<\/p>\n

She had lived 38 good years, she said, and even if her body might die, her soul and spirit will continue to live on.<\/p>\n

But at that point, she said God appeared for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard his voice and he told me – just like this – \u2018Tray, I got you.\u2019 He used my nickname and everything,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

After that Perkins \u201cspoke life\u201d and told her doctors: \u201cI\u2019m gonna live. Period. I just need you all to take this [tumor] out of my brain because I\u2019m not going anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The doctors told her she would not be the same after the surgery, that it would take at least a year for her to learn basic cognitive skills like walking and talking. But Perkins remained confident through her faith.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told the doctors the moment I come off the anesthesia, I\u2019m going to talk and I said the moment you are going to let me put my feet on the ground, I\u2019m gonna walk,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

And she did.<\/p>\n

When the anesthesia wore off, she spoke and had the same cognitive knowledge as before the surgery. Two days later when she was taken to recovery, she was insistent to get out of bed.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cI stood up, I took about two or three steps and I took more steps and an hour later I was walking around the floor,\u201d she said. \u201cJust taking laps around the floor on Christmas Eve. It was amazing, even my neurologist came to see me, he saw me walking and started crying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walking at that point being medically impossible, Perkins was a walking miracle.<\/p>\n

She said surviving the surgery made her feel like a better person.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy faith is even stronger and I just feel like at this point if death couldn\u2019t get me then what can?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Almost four years later, now 42-years-young, as she said herself, Perkins is a first-year master\u2019s student in Industrial and Organizational Psychology<\/a> at The Chicago School’s Los Angeles Campus<\/a>, hoping to help people be the best they can and give them hope.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s obviously something bigger than us here,\u201d she said. \u201cSo we have to figure out how to tap into that, in order to make things better for ourselves and make lives better for others.\u201d<\/p>\n

In September, she started working as a case manager for a non-profit organization in Skid Row, to help the homeless to get their lives off the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know God put me in this position,\u201d she said. \u201cI know, so I can encourage people and let them know ‘don\u2019t give up.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My faith is even stronger and I just feel like at this point if death couldn\u2019t get me then what can?\u201d By: Essi Auguste Virtanen When Trashon Perkins was first told she had a grapefruit sized tumor in her brain back in December 2014, and it would be likely she might not make it, she was willing to accept it. She had lived 38 good years, she said, and even if her body might die, her soul and spirit will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[704],"tags":[756,764,887,918,943],"coauthors":[1034],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-our-wellness","tag-brain-tumor","tag-chicago-school","tag-medical-miracle","tag-our-stories","tag-psychology-student"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPsychology student survives the medically impossible, now giving people hope - Insight Digital Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A powerful story of survival, psychology, and inspiring hope through mental health advocacy.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thechicagoschool.edu\/insight\/for-our-wellness\/psychology-student-survives-the-medically-impossible-now-giving-people-hope\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Psychology student survives the medically impossible, now giving people hope - 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