The story
I was at my desk, working.
Half of me was already on dinner — I was cooking for friends that night, still deciding what to make.
That’s the last thing I remember.
Forty minutes later, I woke up on my office floor, surrounded by paramedics.
I didn’t know how I got there.
Just confused. Completely confused.
Then everything moved fast.
An ambulance. An MRI. Five doctors standing in my room, telling me there was a tumor in my brain.
I was thirty-five.
Surgery, two and a half weeks later. Then a year and a half of chemo and radiation.
And then — nine years. Calm. Clean scans. A life again.
Two years ago, the scans changed. A change I never asked for.
So this is where I am now. Back in treatment — chemo, after radiation — clearing the way so it doesn’t come back again.
I’m not writing this from the other side of it.
I’m writing from inside it.