Brain Tumor Blogs
April 21, 2011 1:31 PM Subscribe
I have been diagnosed with stage 2 glioma/astrocytoma (brain cancer). I would love to find some good blogs from people who have gone through the treatment and experience of brain cancer, but I've been having trouble with the search. Links would be much appreciated! I've looked at "Blog for a Cure" and there are few that are updated. I've found more by googling but many are inapplicable. Thanks in advance for your help.
MeFi's own mathowie has some blog entries about his tumor. Being mostly benign, his is in a different category, but it's a good start, and it might well be worth memailing him about it.
(mr. haughey, please do let me apologize for shilling you without actually having met you)
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 1:53 PM on April 21, 2011
(mr. haughey, please do let me apologize for shilling you without actually having met you)
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 1:53 PM on April 21, 2011
Journalist Ivan Noble wrote about his brain tumor experience, but unfortunately he didn't make it in the end.
posted by needs more cowbell at 2:23 PM on April 21, 2011
posted by needs more cowbell at 2:23 PM on April 21, 2011
An Inconvenient Tumor followed the glioma diagnosis and treatment of Bryan Bishop by his then-fiancee Christie. I had to backtrack to find it because I couldn't remember the name, and it kind of abruptly stops being updated in September, but Bryan (who is a sound engineer for Adam Carolla) is tweeting and working so the blog must have just petered out once the major treatment phase was over.
posted by Lyn Never at 2:48 PM on April 21, 2011
posted by Lyn Never at 2:48 PM on April 21, 2011
You might try looking at the web site of the UCLA School of Medicine (www.ulca.edu). I used to work in the Pathology lab there and the doctors teams had some really great support for patients.
posted by effluvia at 3:29 PM on April 21, 2011
posted by effluvia at 3:29 PM on April 21, 2011
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ I pasted the link for Medline Plus, the National Institute of Health web page. They are also a great resource for finding information and support.
posted by effluvia at 3:34 PM on April 21, 2011
posted by effluvia at 3:34 PM on April 21, 2011
I don't have any blogs to share, but wanted to let you know that I've had three friends with brain tumors (all around the same time no less), and all of them are absolutely fine today, even one who had a terrible kind in a terrible part of the brain. Cancer treatment is really amazing these days.
posted by Billegible at 4:08 PM on April 21, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Billegible at 4:08 PM on April 21, 2011 [1 favorite]
The author of this book is a brain cancer survivor. Although the book is not specifically about brain cancer, he does talk about his experience with it. Also, have you seen this organization's site? They may have information about blogs, etc.
Good luck with your treatment.
posted by odeon at 4:35 PM on April 21, 2011
Good luck with your treatment.
posted by odeon at 4:35 PM on April 21, 2011
Sean Baptiste keeps an amazing blog about his recovery from multiple brain surgeries here: http://www.baronbarometer.com/ .
posted by grrlaction at 6:08 PM on April 21, 2011
posted by grrlaction at 6:08 PM on April 21, 2011
A little late to the game, but I just came across this question.
A friend of mine who had(!) a brain tumor blogged about his experience - fortunately, there's not a lot of updating to do at the moment. :)
Goliath and I
posted by nosila at 7:30 AM on September 7, 2011
A friend of mine who had(!) a brain tumor blogged about his experience - fortunately, there's not a lot of updating to do at the moment. :)
Goliath and I
posted by nosila at 7:30 AM on September 7, 2011
« Older What should I know before getting my website made? | To refund or not to refund, that is the question Newer »
This thread is closed to new comments.
Good luck and good juju : )
posted by goalyeehah at 1:50 PM on April 21, 2011