00:00if you could find out when you were gonna die, would you? hi i'm abby and this week the doctor
00:04told me that the tumor in my brain is a grade 3 oligodendroglioma. and although research is not up
00:09to date and i am a unique human with an individual case, he thinks my life expectancy is gonna be
00:14about 15 years. when this year started out one thing that wasn't on my 2024 bingo card was
00:19getting a brain tumor, yet here we are! one moment i'm crushing pbs at the gym and celebrating four
00:24years of my recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction, the next a neurosurgeon is slicing
00:29into my skull and having a good old route around in my cranium there. as it stands we're currently
00:33waiting for the results of my biopsy to determine whether or not i need further treatment. in the
00:37meantime you better believe i'll be milking this for as much attention as possible and making brain
00:41tumor jokes left right and center. at least i know my poor health symptoms weren't all in my head
00:45after all, eh hat? when i first got i was a bit scared about the prospect of going on a cancer
00:49journey right now because it would be quite the inconvenience. i have so much care and support
00:53around me especially from my cheery golden retriever partner stef who balances out my
00:57cynical black cat ways. but the time has come for my second brain surgery. how am i feeling?
01:02strangely confident and taking each day as it comes. it's incredible how much my outlook on
01:06life has changed. last month i was wishing the days away and wondering what i was doing anything for.
01:11now i'm feeling immense joy when the kind nurse brings me a cup of cracked coffee and a packet
01:15of biscuits. like literally bouncing off the walls at a chocolate bauble because my ability to make
01:20simple choices for myself has vanished and another human being has done something nice for me.
01:24but there is so much out of my control. all i can do is love myself, love each day and take
01:29each challenge as it comes. oh and hope that my very nice genuinely very skilled neurosurgeon
01:34dr butterfingers doesn't drop my skull fragment on the floor this time
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