He is My Hero On May 17, 2021, my son Kevyn was admitted to the hospital with a migraine. He had numerous tests, and a lesion was found on his brain. On May 19, his birthday, he had surgery to remove it as opposed to a simple biopsy. I, as his father, was not going to leave his side. […] March 21, 2024
To the Less Than 1 Percenters On November 20, 2023, I headed into the Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, for my annual 4-month MRI checkup and meeting with my neuro-oncologist. As usual, I am pretty calm on these days. I do not know why because, essentially, my life is hanging in the balance and can change at […] March 20, 2024
The Night Before a Scan It’s Sunday night, December 17, 2023. Tomorrow, I have my biannual brain MRI. I’ve thought through the various outcomes of the scan and the next steps. There’s a flow chart in my head with all the possibilities. If there’s new growth or reoccurrence, I’ll wait to tell the kids until after Christmas. I’m debating if […] January 20, 2024
StrykerStrong For those of you who don’t know Christie, I’d like to introduce her. Christie is a daughter, sister, mother, fiancé, and a Honey. She has three daughters, ages 27, 23, and 13, as well as two grandchildren, ages 6 and 2. Within the last few years, she started a new career full of passion as […] January 20, 2024
Scared I was diagnosed with a meningioma brain tumor on my optic nerve in August 2019. I had my first craniotomy in December of that year. I learned a lot and did a lot of thinking after that surgery. I choose to look at the bright side of things instead of the bad. I became (I […] January 2, 2024
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