June 4, 2009 in Washington Voices

Gallop to graduation

Tessa Cranston took headaches head-on

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Tessa Cranston is shown with one of the horses at the family ranch on Deep Creek Road in May. Cranston underwent brain surgery for migraine headaches which kept her out of classes for five months during her senior year at Medical Lake High School, and she still earned a 3.96 grade-point average. chrisa@spokesman.com
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Moving to a new state for your senior year of high school can’t be easy.

Tessa Cranston, 18, came to Medical Lake High School last year from Sanger, Texas, a small town just outside of Dallas/Fort Worth.

“People were a lot friendlier than I thought they were going to be,” Cranston said.

But going to a new school and meeting loads of new people wasn’t the biggest challenge Tessa was going to face during her senior year.

She had always had migraines – she’d been on medication for them since she was 10. She also had some head injuries growing …

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