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Today was the first visit with a neuro-oncologist. Another doctor, another opinion on what kind of tumor it is. Today’s vocabulary lesson was the word astrocytoma. A quick internet search and I’m now more confused than ever. https://abta.org/tumor_types/astrocytoma/ So basically subependymomas are a type of ependymoma. Astrocytomas are a type of glioma. All of theseContinue reading “Pick a Tumor, Any Tumor…”

I have never liked New Years. In the beginning my dislike stemmed from a place of disappointment. I was a soap opera watching tween/teen and when I attended parties on New Years it was never like it was portrayed on television. No one was dressed as fancy, the ambiance was dull, it just never metContinue reading “Down with New Year Resolutions”

I really didn’t want to go anywhere. I wanted to curl up in bed with my new weighted blanket, turn on the fairy lights in my bedroom and just sleep. However, we had already made plans. We were going to overnight camp at our new leanto that my husband had painstakingly built this summer. What’sContinue reading “Doing Hard Things”

The last thing that that the nurse said before we hung up after the news of “you have a mass on your brain” was that I needed to have another MRI done, this time with contrast to better see what was happening inside my brain. The last MRI took forever to get insurance approval andContinue reading “7 days long…”