Brain Tumor Survivor: A Short Story

I would like to share a story that is very meaningful to me. I am a brain tumor survivor! One day when I was just four years old, my mom and I were sitting beside each other at the kitchen table coloring as we usually did. This time my mom noticed as she looked over at me that my profile had changed drastically. The bridge of my nose appeared to be completely flattened. In her words as I've heard the story so many times, "her profile had changed completely and it looked as though her nose had disappeared." Mom never said a word to me about my condition. Soon after she learned that I had a cyst on the bridge of my nose that had totally deteriorated the bone. Not only that, but it was intracranially connected to a brain tumor in the frontal lobe of my …show more content…
After tons of medication used to sedate me and nothing working, my mom finally offered to get in with me and I finally calmed down and cooperated. She remembers it being very loud and claustrophobic but all I remember is the cute teddy bear that they gave me afterwards. My mom said each time we would go to a doctors office and hospital I was not aware of how serious my situation really was. I was skipping and playing, being a little girl, asking to push the buttons in the elevator and she was holding back tears and talking to God in her mind. My mom and my dad both say to this day that through the whole experience, they had an overwhelming feeling of peace, despite the trauma that I would go through until the end. Soon it was time to remove the cyst and the brain tumor and I missed several weeks of kindergarten. I remember my teacher, Mrs. Peterson, came to visit me with a stuffed ostrich because my class was learning the letter 'O' along with a card signed by all of my classmates. My family is still to this day in touch with Mrs. Peterson who means so much to