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Finding My Way Back Home
I have a question and see if this has ever applied to you: Have you ever felt that you’ve failed at something? I mean, failed so badly on every level

#fightlikeagirl
I’ve lived with anaplastic brain tumor since January 2014. So no surgery to remove it; only chemotherapy and radiation and a pause for sinus wall surgery. After that, my tumor

Just a Sinus Infection!
I once went to the doctor for an ear ache. The doctor said you don’t have an ear ache. It looks like a sinus infection. Here take this antibiotic. Not

Keep Calm, It’s Just a Brain Tumor
At age 62, I was living a cabin-in-the-woods quiet life, filled with books, hikes, dog walks, a loving partner, good friends, and no reason to believe any of it would

Better Late Than Never
I was 16 when a fortune teller told me that I would marry late in life. As someone who had been planning my wedding since I was very young, I

Those Headaches; It’s a Tumor….
The headaches started when I was 12 years old. I would take a couple Advil and try to take a nap. They’d go away after a while, but over time

Farewell, Tina!
Oddly enough, upon reflection, it appears “Tina” tried to make her presence known to me many years ago… I started having right-side neck pain at the base of my skull

My father’s journey
At 73, my father’s symptoms started September 2019 with headaches, forgetfulness, incomplete sentences, eye discomfort, and mood swings. After about a month he experienced gait imbalance and we took him

Parenting through Diagnosis and Recurrence
In 2016, I was a champion ultra-runner, yet I was given three months to live with a Chordoma tumor wrapped around my brain stem. Our children were 10 and 12.