I was taking an oral chemotherapy drug, Temodar, from October 2022-August 2023. My last day of Temodar was Thursday 8/31/23. With that being finished and behind me, many are wondering what comes next after chemo. Did I beat cancer? Am I now in remission? Are my tumors gone? How do I feel? Will I be…
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Astro-what?
I first heard the term Astrocytoma when a nurse called me the week following my surgery in which they took a sample of brain tissue for a biopsy. At the time of the call they were able to confirm that we were dealing with a Grade 2 Astrocytoma. What we didn’t know at that time…
Digesting the Diagnosis
You can try to imagine how you personally might react when faced with the news of a brain cancer diagnosis, especially a life limiting one. But this isn’t something you can truly fathom until it happens, and when it does, you never react quite the way you would have thought. June 23rd Was the Day…