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Twenty year TUMORVERSARY

Today I celebrate 7300 days since my very first brain surgery ( I have had 5)! I have had some amazing days and my share of not so amazing days. The most important take away is I was given days others with brain cancer did not get. I don’t take that for granted. So…

Warrior Ribbon

Wear your ribbons! Be a voice & talk about tumors. It’s May and that means it’s brain tumor awareness month. The ribbon in the photo is a ribbon my sweet BRAINGL CHRISTINA gave me while she battled. Her stepdad made it so we could share awareness in the neighborhood, we had matching ones. Today it…

Students Create Campus Brain Tumor Awareness Campaign

May is Brain Cancer Awareness month & the Biotech Club at Red Mountain High school has teamed up with the Gray Matters Foundation to help STAMP out Brain Cancer. The Gray Matters foundation is a nonprofit organization created to support and empower brain tumor patients and their loved ones through encouragement and personal outreach.…

Corporate GMFBRAINBUDDIE Fitness Institute of Arrowhead

Today we want to tell you about one of our #CorporateGMFbrainbuddies. We met @GregTrevesio and his company @FitnessInstituteofArrowhead when he came highly recommended as a personal trainor by our doctor. I hired him as a personal trainor for my son. We have known Greg for just about ten years. Over the ten years I…

Thankful Thursday

THANKFUL THURSDAY: I can’t thank @E Joyce Rend Webb enough. She was the brain buddie who requested I be featured in the Card Maker Magazine back in 2011. The really cool part of this story was she’d been making and donating cards to the foundation in memory of her dear friend who had passed from a brain tumor…

When you listen do you hear?

This IF ONLY FOR ONE took place Friday Jan. 29 2016. I had a pretty busy morning starting with a meeting at BNI . I always try to maximize my time when at the hospital, today wasn’t any different. I was able to visit #babycarsonsdaddy, great news he is moved back to a regular room…

My Medical "IF ONLY FOR ONE"

AS MOST OF YOU KNOW: My true brain tumor journey started in 1992 when my grandma was diagnosed and in 9 wks died. My grandma was my first IFONLYFORONE. More about that on my website under my story. This BLOG is about my MEDICALIFONLYFORONE. It never occurred to me to count the one who…

The November Thankfulness Challenge

Happy November! Everyone thinks of Thanksgiving at this time of year. What do you have to be thankful for? Research has shown that being thankful can improve your overall health – physically, mentally and emotionally, including better sleep patterns, and even heart benefits. Research has also found that another benefit of regularly feeling thankful or…