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Never a Dull Moment
by Brenda Brady
People have asked me how I feel about my healing journey. I was diagnosed in December 2007 and I can remember it as if it were yesterday.
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Fighting for Survival
by Alan Hackman
In September 1990, three symptoms began to appear from in my body: a slight dizziness in my head, a loss of memory, and an involuntary movement on the left side of my body.
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Making Miracles Happen
by Gregory White Smith
They said I had three months to live. According to the doctors, a benign brain tumor, which I had been managing nicely (thank you) for more that a decade, had suddenly turned malignant.
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God Gives Us Wings But Faith Makes Them Fly
by Maria Hartmann
It is a privilege to write my survival story. I hope it reminds everyone not to lose perspective of what is important.
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Never Give Up!
by Pam Rehwald
If you were to look up the word "determination" in the dictionary, you might someday find the name of artist Pam Rehwald as part of the definition.
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Which Door Did You Choose?
by Jennifer Neale
Four years ago my life changed while attending a conference in Las Vegas. As Executive Vice President at McGraw-Hill, I was committed to attending two big annual meetings a year.
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Maintaining Hope
by Debbie Janssen
All I knew about brain tumors before I was diagnosed with one was how romantic they seemed in movies. But when I got the news 21 years ago that I had an anaplastic astrocytoma, I remember thinking ?there?s absolutely nothing good or romantic about this. This is a death threat.? My husband and I were told I had six months to live.
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Trust Your Feelings
by Dart Winkler
If I were to give advice to a brain tumor patient, I would say, ?trust your feelings and intuition.? I have always ?known? when things were wrong with me before the doctors told me ? and sometimes before they even happened.
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Finding Peace and Empowerment
by Scott Norris
Unbelievable. That's the word that kept coming to mind the first couple of times I went to my oncologist. Unbelievable.
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Powerless Yet Powerful
by Tyler Beam
My name is Tyler Beam and I have an anaplastic oligodendroglioma. I have had two craniotomies, just finished my fourth cycle of Temodar, and started radiation therapy in March.
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The Biggest Race of My Life
by Jody Feltz
A dream come true, that's how 17-year-old Jody Feltz describes the memorable moment when the 2002 Winter Olympic torch was placed in her hands.
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Never Give Up
by Scott Kempf
As a freshman at Purdue University, I noticed I was slowly developing balance problems.
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The Benefits of Having a Brain Tumor
by Kurtis Roose, RN
Many people will look at this title and wonder if maybe I received a bit too much chemotherapy or radiation. I might have, but I'm alive today.
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Life is a Journey, Not a Destination
by Jenelle Rose
My name is Jenelle Rose. I am 19 years old. I suffered from horrible headaches and migranes for a year prior to finding out about my tumor. It wasn't until June 3, 2002 at about 3:30 in the morning that I finally realized something was terribly wrong with me.
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The Love of Family
by Billy Sonier
My life changed forever when my brain tumor was discovered. I'll never forget that day.
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From Denial to Hope
by Stacy Tyler
It has been a long journey full of faith and fear, denial and hope.
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Thinking Positive
by Zazel-Chavah O'Garra
Once rendered immobile after her surgery to remove a brain tumor, Zazel-Chavah O'Garra shares how dance and a positive outlook helped her reclaim her body.
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Unconditional Love
by Charlie Toth
'I'm sorry?.' I thought the doctor was apologizing for the long wait we?d had in the emergency room. After pausing a couple of seconds she came right out and said, 'You have a brain mass.'
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Why Me? Why Not Me. It is me.
by Linda Kendall
It started with a headache that never went away. Then, my foot started to feel numb. I didn't think the two were related and neither did my primary care physician.
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Damn the Statistics
by Richard Pittman
Seven years ago I enjoyed a career in corporate finance with a Fortune 100 company that took me around the world, and a family life in southern California just blocks from the beach. But in the rough and tumble world of corporate politics, choice assignments and promotions went to others as I forgot meetings, confused crucial details, and stumbled through well-practiced presentations. Diane, my wife, saw the changes in me, but I ignored them and pushed ahead.
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