Dear readers and fans,
I am so heartily sorry it’s been so long since my last chapter published for Crazy Faith. As many of you know, my sweet husband was diagnosed with brain cancer in late July 2021, and if my life was a rollercoaster before that, it’s a freaking hurricane now. Biopsy in August confirmed grade 2 oligodendroglioma with a favorable genetic profile that makes it most responsive to treatment, but the tumor was quite large - 9cm. He underwent surgery in October to remove the existing cranioplasty from his combat injury and resect the tumor, and his wonderful neurosurgeons were able to resect all but about 1cm of the mass in his right frontal lobe, and one of his epileptologists was also on the case to take some of the surrounding seizure-active tissue related to his injury. This was all pretty successful and he recovered fast and well like the walking miracle he has always been. 28 Radiation treatments started in December and this week he will finish, and then get a 4 week break before 14ish months of PCV chemotherapy begin. It’s a long and twisty road, and my brain has not been in a frame of mind to write, which is frustrating but normal I suppose.
Last week I myself had surgery to release my right carpal tunnel and on my right elbow to relocate my ulnar nerve where it won’t pop over my elbow and continue to be damaged - I have had problems with both for quite a while and it was time to get it fixed before permanent damage occurred. I need my hands working. That all went well thanks to my super awesome surgeon and OR team, all of whom I am privileged to work with daily. I’m hoping that during the time I’ve taken off to recover I will feel like writing next week after my restrictive splint comes off.
Thank you, truly, to those who have sent private messages over the last several months. I’ve always joked about my life being wild, but this has absolutely been a test of just how wild it can get. Can we be done now? Because I’d really love a few blissfully boring years after all this is over, or some wildness in the form of family adventures and not brain cancer.