The words of my grandmother. How I adore her. It’s been over a month since I had brain surgery #2! This has not been easy at all! I feel like I got hit by a Mack truck full of pain and confusion. I’m so happy to be feeling the way I am today so it’s definitely a good time for an update!
Post surgery was extremely hard on me. Thank you so much to my main and many caregivers! There’s no way I would have made it without you. Thank you for the many prayers and well wishes from all of my friends and family. They are certainly felt and very helpful. The pain from the surgery was unbearable. The confusion is unlike anything I’ve ever dealt with. Thank you all for supporting me, I truly appreciate it!
I’ve got good news, and good news! No that is not a typo! Let’s do the good news first 😉. The pathology results of the mass that was removed from my brain. It turns out that this growth was actually not a tumor! The mass was a reaction from radiation. Although it stinks to have to have had another crainiotomy, the awesome part is that even though I still have cancer it’s not formed another tumor in just 10 short months! Such a weight lifted, look at God!
Good news #2! I do have a new oncologist in Chicago. She is awesome! She’s intelligent, proactive, informed and extremely caring. She is exactly what I was missing. She agrees with the pathology and together she, my family and I have decided to forgo my treatments at this time and just go under a “watch” status. I’ll be honest. It’s a little scary for me to not be under any treatment because a part of me feels like the cancer is able to just do what it wants. However, I’m much more excited that I will be able to focus on feeling better, doing things with my family and even striving to go back to work! Finding my new normal would be so awesome because being sick is NOT it!
I have some hills to climb but I have some mountains behind me. God is good. He had heard us. Thank you all.
Tahaira Tough
#ElectricGray
My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Brain Cancer 
All I have to say is to God be the Glory!! This has been a road and process of pure love. Choices good and ugly have gotten us this far but more than anything the power of prayer has shown up at our feet.
Xoxo
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Love you so sis!
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