As the new decade begins, I've reflected more on the meaning of courage as I embark on an enormous transition in my life.
CURE Contributor: When Living with Brain Cancer, Life Doesn’t Always Go as Planned
This article was originally published in CURE Magazine. Click HERE to go to the publication. I am happy to share that I am now a regular contributor for CURE. This may mean that a lot of my writing (aside from medical updates) will get shared on CURE or another publication before landing on my blog. …
Rough Seas: Confronting the “experimental” aspects of experimental treatment
Note: Anything I share in posts related to my treatment are my own personal experience. It does not reflect what may happen to someone else, or what others should do. More so, I share these posts as a glimpse into my experience living with brain cancer. Hopefully there are parts of my story that resonate, areas …
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On Finding Meaning in my Cancer Journey
Throughout my radiation treatments I took some time to do some writing.  Now that I am starting to get some energy back and feel myself again, I wanted to post what I had written.  I wrote the following post about a month ago at the half-way point of my radiation treatments: On New Year’s Day, …
The boy in the waiting room…why we need to support pediatric brain tumor research!
I am finally at the half-way point of my proton treatment, and besides some fatigue and hair-loss, I've been feeling pretty well. Every day I have a similar treatment routine: I take the T to Mass General (...usually while listening to a Spotify playlist made by my brother), take the elevators down to the Burr Proton …