It all starts on January 4th...

I had finally decided enough was enough and went to the ER Department at Tripler Army Medical Center. It was about 1:30 in the morning and I was in the waiting room for almost 4 hours before I was about to leave but my mother in law and husband told me to stay since I waited that long already. So I did, and at that moment they called my name. The physician came into the room and I was explaining to him my symptoms which were, the inside of my head felt like someone was squeezing my brain, my eye vision had changed  from November (while I was pregnant) and then after I had my daughter in December. I wasn’t able to write without feeling tightness in my hand, my handwriting looked like chicken scratch. and at anytime I stood up too fast or made any quick movement i would see total darkness. The last straw for me was when I noticed I was starting to slur my words. I knew something wasn’t right and I needed to get to the bottom of it. Back to being in the ER the physician ordered for some blood, and a CT scan (I requested for one) I wanted to reassure myself that their was nothing wrong and I was just having these symptoms due to hormonal changes from giving birth. Never in a million of years did I think the physician  was going to tell me he see’s something which looks like it could be a mass right in the back of my brain. I was in pure shock, my body went completely numb and all I thought about was my family and I was all alone. He told me the neurosurgeon had went home for the night, but called him, told him my symptoms and what he found on the CT Scan and he without hesitation said that he was on his way back. In the meantime, he ordered for me to have a MRI done. Once I was back from the MRI I waited which felt like forever..... I prayed to God for whatever it was to please keep me in his hands. The neurosurgeon walked in and introduced himself and explained to me that I in fact have a tumor in the back of my brain and if he didn’t drill a hole in my head right now I could die due to the amount of pressure the tumor was causing already. All I remember feeling is numbness. I told him please do whatever you have to because I am a mother, wife, daughter, sister and Titi (aunt). He looked at me and said trust me you’re going to be okay. & started to proceed with the procedure. I was awake but numb and as I heard that drill I remember feeling my tears falling on the side of my face. & then I woke up in the ICU very confused. My husband was right there explaining everything that happened to me since I only remembered the drill procedure. The very next day the neurosurgeon took me into surgery to remove the tumor, in which he did. Another scan was done and he wasn’t satisfied with those results and asked to go back in and was confidant that he would be able to remove every little spec of any possible tumor cell. & that last scan he truly did exactly that! I was TUMOR FREE!!!! , but not completely out  of the woods, as  a biopsy of the mass indicated that the tumor was cancerous and I was diagnosed with medullablastomy, which will require treatment  and continuous monitoring.  As you can imagine a complete change of course for me and my family with more challenges than we planned on.




Thank you for taking the time to read my story. I had my daughter in December. & Then only 3 weeks postpartum I had to have an emergency surgery. Not one but 3. Returned home only to have to leave again for treatment in North Carolina. My son was with my parents in Florida. & My husband is in the military and had to stay in Hawai’i with my daughter to  finish clearing out his time in Hawai’i (PCSing). We are moving  (PCSing) to North Carolina, Fort Bragg that is where my husband will be stationed next in March. & I am currently in Florida now with my parents and my son. Waiting for my husband and daughter to arrive in Florida. As happy I am for us to be all United again we sadly have to be yet again apart for I start radiation treatment at Duke in Durham, NC. We have to leave our babies behind and drive almost 9 hours to start my treatment. It’s not only been a very difficult month but my husband and I are still going to have to travel back and forth. Thankfully we’ll be in NC but with the expenses of a new home we just brought before all this happened and with a newborn baby, traveling back and forth, moving into our new home and having to go through treatment with all of that going on it’s surely going to take a toll on our family for it already has. These things happen and we don’t understand why sometimes but you just have to let it rest in gods hands.




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