Stories

A Journey of Love and Loss: Navigating Glioblastoma with My Dad In December 2022, my dad, Otis Mattox, Jr., started feeling unwell at the start of what should have been a happy holiday season. In the beginning, the doctors in the ER thought it might be food poisoning, but after several trips to the emergency room, it became clear that something more serious was going on. […] November 27, 2023

Ben’s GBM Battle My husband Ben was diagnosed with glioblastoma in April 2019, after suffering from headaches, nausea, and feeling like he was having a nervous breakdown. He participated in a clinical trial at Dana-Farber that included injecting the Herpes Virus into the tumor site. The original tumor was donated to research.  Ben worked as a Research Scientist […] November 22, 2023

My Story My name is Ken Peek. I am 53 years old and have been a high school teacher and coach for 26 years. In April, 2023, I started to have some numbness and tingling in my lower right leg. My doctor and trainers at school thought it was a pinched nerve. Chiropractic help and some stretching […] November 22, 2023

My Beautiful Sister vs. Godzilla My beautiful sister, my rock, my best friend was diagnosed with a very large, very aggressive brain tumor called a glioblastoma…the doctors called it “Godzilla.”  Lynn had had some compression and injury to her brain due to the tumor, as well as a cyst that the tumor decided to produce. We were waiting for her […] November 22, 2023

My Beautiful Daughter My 20 yr old daughter was diagnosed in August 2017. She had surgery with 90 percent tumor removal. She She chose to only do 3 weeks of chemo and radiation. She lived her life to the fullest until October 2020 when we got the heartbreaking news that it was back and inoperable. I left work […] November 22, 2023