May is the internationally recognized month for Brain Cancer Awareness,
which is funny because it was in May 2019 that I first became 'aware' that
I had brain cancer.
In fact, every major event in our journey has come in the month of May, so May has become our brain cancer anniversary celebration month!
Here are all the Brain Cancer Anniversaries that we celebrate in May:
- May 3 (2019) - The day we first discovered I had a brain tumor.
- May 6 (2019) - The day I had my first open craniotomy surgery. (So much FUN!)
- May 26 (2020) - The day I had my second open craniotomy surgery. (Even more FUN!)
- May 12 (2022) - The day we found out all the Cancer was gone!
So today (May 3) is the anniversary of when Candis and I found out that I had a brain tumor. I remember the day like it was yesterday.
- Candis had to go tell David and Graham the news and picked them both up from school to meet me at the hospital. On the way she had to call my parents and her parents to give them the news.
- They put me in an ambulance and took me to the hospital to see the brain surgeon.
- The whole day was kind of surreal.
Life can change in the blink of an MRI!
When you're diagnosed with Cancer it changes your perspective on everything. Every memory now is placed on a new timeline. We have our own BC and AD eras. BC is Before Cancer and AD is After Diagnosis. As if that wasn't confusing enough there's also IBS, and AS2. - In Between Surgeries, and After Second Surgery.
You can see why we went with AS squared and not the actual
abbreviation. Although the full acronym would have gone better with the more well known abbreviation for: IBS.
We don't use dates any more we just reference all the major milestones in the journey.
"When did we take that trip to Boston?"
"That was 5 months AD "
"When did Ford release the new Bronco?"
"Oh, that was 3 months AS2."
Through it all, God has sustained us, just as He promises in His word. As always, God is good!
