First! I am sooooo excited most of my best friends are going to be in Atlanta this weekend for the walk to raise Brain Tumor Awareness! Team Rosa has 80 people signed up! I was chosen as the ambassador and I will be giving a speech after the race. Anyone want to write it for me? Anyway, I can't wait to walk with all my friends and family beside me. AND someone from my team better win! I have I have some athletic friends.
I went to Houston this Wednesday to meet with my doctor there..The appointment didn't go exactly how I thought, and I was shocked to hear they want me to have brain surgery again, a week from today. Whew. This will be a more invasive surgery than the first one I had, and they are going to try and remove as much live tumor as they can. Its full on Grey's Anatomy, they put me to sleep, wake me up, and I will talk to the surgeon during the actually removal part, to hopefully safely remove it without doing any permanent damage to my speech. They are doing this because, even on a high dosage of steroids, the swelling on my brain continues to increase. I'm really nervous, and I will be glad when its over.
I wanted to share another blog with you guys. This guy, Kevin, I think I have blogged about him before. His mother had the same type of brain tumor as me- a GBM. I've never put that on my blog before, FYI. He is doing a trans-American walk to raise awareness for this awful disease. He is not starting the walk till this fall, but here is his
blog. You can also follow him @kevinswalk on twitter.
I appreciate if you keep me in your thoughts next week as I go through surgery and recovery. I'll be in Houston at least 10 days. I'll post pictures of the walk ASAP, before Houston! Thats a good promise :)
OH I just found about that tomorrow in the state of Georgia is MARISSA PARKS today!!!!! Hope you guys all celebrate appropriately!!!!!!! Kind of a big of deal.
