December 1st Steven came home after being on the road for a month as usual, he is a long haul truck driver. He was home 30 minutes and suffered a grand mal seizure, the first ever in his life. He was unresponsive and turned blue. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital where after numerous tests, they found a mass on his brain. Before he would leave the Chambersburg Hospital, they would term it a Glioma. He was then headed to Hershey Medical Centers care for further diagnosis. Everything moved quickly. The neuro surgeon saw us the very next week and scheduled an MRI for 3 weeks out to measure any growth. He didn't expect to see anything. Everyone considered this a very slow growing tumor. Steven did the MRI and we saw the neuro surgeon that same day. He took a quick look and scheduled Steven for surgery on February 9th. The tumor had grown significantly! In the days leading up to surgery, Steven had several specialized MRI's and CTs to map his brain.  This led to the decision to wake Steven up for the actual tumor removal part of the surgery, so he could do function tests for them. This allowed the surgeons to be able to remove as much as possible. Surgery went well. Steven was left with blindness in both eyes from center vision field to the right peripheral. This still has not resolved and could be permanent. February 19th, sitting in the Hershey Medical Center we received the news that Steven's tumor was Anaplastic Astrocytoma Grade 3, an incurable brain cancer. Big jump from a slow growing tumor to incurable brain cancer!
March 15th Steven started 33 treatments of radiation and chemo. We traveled to Hershey Medical Center every Monday thru Friday until April 29th. It was tiring on everyone involved. Steven handled treatment fairly well and watching him ring the bell that he made it thru all those days of treatment was a real tear jerker!
Steven is currently on a 4 week break to let everything heal for the radiation and chemo. He has an MRI on June 4th and an appt to go over the results on June 7th. At that appt he will get his schedule for his chemo cycles. They are double the strength of the chemo he was on during radiation. He will take it for 5 days and be off of it for 23 days, then repeat. That will continue for at least 6 months most likely a year. To most people Steven seems great and trucking right along. (no pun intended) At home, He is exhausted and sleeps a lot, he repeats everything, remembers nothing. All of these things are normal but are very frustrating for him and cause a lot of stress. His blindness will keep him from ever driving again and he is struggling to accept that.
Currently we are in a situation of not being able to afford where we live and nothing available with the county for low income housing. We have applied for disability, he were approved, but we are in the waiting period. Medical bills, bills, rent, the vet...everything is starting to back up and I have no idea what to do next. 
We appreciate everything everyone has done for us since this has happened and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Your support and prayers have been what has kept our family healthy, safe and together to take care of Steven. 
Beyond financial help, please continue to pray for Steven and the family. The boys will be graduating and leaving for the Army in a few weeks. 

Thank you and blessings,
Susan
Steven's Wife