Stories

Laine’s Mission April 1, 2024, marked six years without my Mom, Laine. Life without her is surreal. She was diagnosed in 2015 with glioblastoma, and it was a gut punch. She was a healthy 53-year-old, lived an active lifestyle, and loved her life, work, and family. We were very proactive once we received her diagnosis. We are […] February 7, 2025

Ava’s Story At 14, I was diagnosed with epilepsy and a brain tumor. Before they knew about the brain tumor, and I was just told about the epilepsy, I had thought that it couldn’t get worse. Two weeks after being diagnosed with epilepsy, they called and told us about the brain tumor, a rare one, a ganglioglioma. […] February 6, 2025

Frontal Lobe Brain Tumor Written in 2020. My eyes open in an emergency room. The room was white and cold. I am very confused. I see my mother. A doctor is telling us I had a seizure and I have a brain tumor. I am immediately escorted out on a stretcher and into an ambulance. I am freezing, but […] February 6, 2025

My Papi My papi was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in November 2019. Never having had any symptoms present, he had been growing this tumor for quite a bit at the time of his diagnosis. He had a sudden onset of slurred speech, memory loss, and cognitive impairment that was both so random and so scary. What was […] February 6, 2025

Christy is a Thriver At the age of 7 in 1979, I had a grand mal seizure, and they discovered that I had a pituitary adenoma. I was rushed to the ER and then sent to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I was rushed into the surgical suite and operated on for several hours. The tumor was intertwined […] February 6, 2025