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Teacher Sings Through Brain Surgery At Jersey Shore Medical Center (Video)
Krystina Vied started with some Neil Diamond and ended with the "Moana" soundtrack.
No, this wasn't a karaoke bar. This was brain surgery.
Vied, a 30-year-old preschool teacher from Keansburg, was diagnosed with epilepsy years ago, but was having breakthrough seizures despite being on anti-seizure medication.
An MRI found Vied had a brain tumor, and she was referred to Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore University Medical Center neuro-oncologist, Shama Farooq, M.D., and Nitesh V Patel, M.D., Co-Director of Neurosurgical Oncology.
Patel, a Jersey City native who c…
