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Letting Go (Day 1 of 30)

I have committed to writing a blog a day every day this September to look back, let go, and take in all that I’m grateful for, and the blessings of the past year. Life with Glioblastoma feels like playing Russian roulette every day. Living a mystery in three month increments, from MRI to the next MRI. Cancer is a journey that clearly sucks, but has much to offer if we are able to see the gift through the struggle. My...

Life With Glioblastoma

I wrote previously about Hiking Humphrey’s Peak with Howard, My Brain Tumor. Little did I know at that time that my world would be turned upside down on another hike, just a few months later. Early this summer I found out I had a brain tumor. I named him Howard, and against doctor’s orders took him for a long hike up a big hill—Humphrey’s Peak, Flagstaff, Arizona. Together we watched the most amazing sunrise I’ve ever seen.  After seeing the...

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...