“Vacation Period?” Seriously…

In my last post, So, you’re going to radiate my brain????, I talked about my 6 weeks of radiation.  As I described, radiation had become part of my regular, daily routine, as odd as that may sound.  Following the end of my 30 radiation sessions, my doctors dubbed the time until my next scan my "vacation [...]

“So, does that mean it’s cancer?”

“So, does that mean it’s cancer?”

"So, does that mean, it's cancer?"  That was the question I found myself asking, during my first post-operative appointment with my neurosurgeon.  The only way to fully determine  whether a tumor is "benign" or cancerous is to undergo hours of complex surgery, involving your skull being sawed open and your brain being cut into to [...]