Stories

The most difficult trial Hello my name is Endrian Stanley Banks, and I have a brain tumor. I was diagnosed June 24, 2011. Initially I was told by my doctors that my brain tumor was a minor and I didn’t have anything to worry about, then a year later I started having moments where I would blank out and […] September 17, 2021

Meningioma after a night out My kids were young 6, 8, 13, and 14. I had been in amazing physical and mental shape at the time. I had many friends and family; who could ask for more. I was 39 at the time and it was that night in the late spring of 2009 that I went to a friends […] September 17, 2021

Mixed Emotions For years I would not talk about my brain tumor story, and I am not sure why. I am pretty shy and do not like to be the center of attention and really didn’t want people feeling sorry for me…so maybe that was it?? My first brain tumor diagnosis was in 1999 when I was […] August 5, 2021

To my father, Tom Losing my father to glioblastoma was something I wouldn’t have imagined even in my nightmares. I’d never experienced the loss of a loved one before and it all happened so fast. He was diagnosed in Albania when my mother saw the first signs of the tumor like memory loss. We all thought it was normal […] August 5, 2021

Glioblastoma Awareness Day My father passed away 9 years ago today. There isn’t a day where he isn’t missed and we see him daily in the various things we do. Coincidentally, July 21, 2021 is also Glioblastoma Awareness Day, for the disease that took my father from us. There are over 120 different kinds of brain tumors and […] July 26, 2021