Life with Glioblastoma

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Howard Has a New Name: Glioblastoma

I guess I left you all hanging a week or so ago. I had emergency brain surgery last Friday in an attempt to remove Howard, my brain tumor. They were able to remove the majority of him but he left tentacles behind. Howard is a glioblastoma, which is an aggressive cancer located in a spot in my brain where they can’t be aggressive surgically. None of us get out of this thing we call life alive and it seems I’ve...

How the Mountain Helped Me Heal

Under the influence of altitude I become a different person. I actually feel intoxicated and euphoric when I get high (in elevation), and I usually love the feeling. There’s something about being up high, and feeling high, naturally.  On this particular hike (Humphrey’s Peak, first attempt this year) something different happened though. It may have had a lot to do with the other factors I wrote about in my previous blog, Hiking Humphreys with Howard, my Brain Tumor.   We began...