Mom blog 1

Well - after that stellar introduction by my beloved daughter, this is my first humble submission to our joint venture. No where to start I guess, except at the beginning. On March 5 of this year I was diagnosed with a brain tumor and, by the the 10th, had had surgery to remove it. Although the surgery was largely successful, we have come to learn that there is very little good news with this disease - it almost always comes back -and that fairlyquickly! I am now post-radiation and into my third round of chemo. We have also come to know that conventional medicine has a pretty limited arsenal against glioblastoma multiforme tumors - quite a mouthful so from here on, aka GBM! If there are some of you GBMers out there, I'd love to here from you, as support groups for those with brain tumors seem sadly absent! I've already decided to title my next blog "Serendipity", as I'm slowly coming to believe in this phenomenon I once scorned as forced coincidence. Just a little teaser about some of the positive things that have come about! I love you, Gretchen!