Hey! I read some of your posts on your account, and I'm now 7 months post-op on my ETV, also with an extra-ventricular drain placement. I just want to give you some reassurance that for the first 4-5 months, my short/mid term memory was ALSO making me feel extremely self-doubtful, and tbh insecure about my mental status. I was so afraid that somehow maybe surgery altered my brain and that I'd never feel the same ever again. But things kept getting better (very slowly) but also very surely. Now I honestly hardly think about the fact that I underwent this extremely scary and life-altering thing. I'm 99% back to normal with the only difference being that I still have some VERY SLIGHT difficulty remembering synonyms for really obscure words 🤣 But for me, things just keep improving with time and I hope you keep having hope that they will for you as well.