I was only your patient for a few days, but your willingness to stay in touch during a crucial time changed my life forever.

I am still that punk rock drummer turned brain cancer patient—but now I work for an academic medical center on research and research dissemination.

“Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

I have had a brain tumor for one quarter of my life. I am the same person I was before but I am completely changed.

The big question is, which trial is the right one? Will I be that unicorn patient who might live a life that is statistically longer than the current patient population? And with the cognitive decline that comes with brain cancer, would this be a kind of life I’d want to live?

Is it possible I provided too much information for my medical team? Yes, but I believe it better to share everything and leave it to the professionals to weed out extraneous details.

I did not blog about my dad when he died. I wrote a song.

The doctor’s job is to make sure I receive good care, not be my best friend.