Brian's Story:

Brian Rodi is a 43 year old, United States Army Veteran, that is currently fighting Glioblastoma, stage 4 brain cancer. Brian was compelled to join the Army after the attack of 9/11. In the beginning of 2003, Brian was sent to Iraq to fight in Operation Iraqi Freedom, with the 50th signal battalion. He came back to Fort Liberty, North Carolina (formally Fort Bragg), due to suffering from a back injury in December of 2003. That is when Brian met his future wife, Erin. They were married in 2008. A year before Brian and Erin, had their first child, Shane, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Then in 2015 moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, to be closer to Erin’s family. In 2017, they were expecting their second child, Phoebe Jo. Two weeks before Phoebe’s birth, Brian went to the VA hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to have a CT scan due to having extreme headaches, and a mass was found in his frontal lobe. Emergency surgery happened the next day at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. After three days in the hospital, Brian returned home, and a week and a half later, his daughter was born. The biopsy came back a week after that with the devastating news, that it was an Anaplastic Astrocytoma, stage three brain cancer. Brian underwent another surgery at Chapel Hill, to fully remove the mass at this time, followed by three months of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Brian was in stable condition for six years, but on January 2, 2023, he was admitted to Novant Regional Medical Center due to having extreme headaches again. This is where the doctors discovered that the mass had grown back more aggressively, now diagnosing him with stage four brain cancer, Glioblastoma. Brian was in the hospital for 2 months and underwent 3 brain surgeries, to remove the mass, and help with the complications he suffered from the surgery. Brian came back home to his family at the end of February 2023, continuing chemotherapy, radiation, and Avastin treatments. On August 17, 2023, Erin found him on the floor of their home suffering from a seizure, and called for an ambulance. Since then Brian has been unable to return home to his family, due to his rapid mental and physical decline, to which he needs 24 hour care.

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