It was a great time doing the event this year I will post some pictures of the event our team helped raise a couple thousand hopefully next year is better.

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I have been away for a while my mom had an accident and was hurt falling down a flight of stairs we have been all taken turns helping my parents until she is better. She is doing a lot better and will be fully healed in a couple of weeks it was a great Mother’s Day this sometimes we forget about how important our parents are until an event strikes the family.

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I have had some issues and will be back thank you.

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Before the surgery I had loss most of my ability to use my left leg or arm, but I never losed the ability to tell a joke or make someone laugh. I knew as a kid how difficult it was for my family to see me sick so I always tried to keep strong for everyone else. The doctor was telling everyone that I would probably be in worst shape when I came out of surgery. I was in surgery for almost 10 hours when I came out I felt like I was on fire I just wanted ice all over my body to try to cool down. In the next 24 hours I was walking and probably surprised a lot of people in the hospital especially the people that seen the scan of the tumor before I had surgery it was massive.

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It was hard to pinpoint what symptoms had begun, but in Feb 2008 I began to become erratic in my personality easily angered I also couldn’t sleep very anxious. I thought it was due to the stressful job I had thought I was losing control! I had called the hospital to schedule an appointment with a physiologist for the next day. After the appointment with the doctor I was given a note to my employer for 2 weeks off, and also to undergo classes for depression and anger management during those 2 weeks with a prescription to an anti depressant.

When I returned to work I thought I felt better, I got some rest from work and the medication seemed to be helping. I would say about two weeks later I just fell apart again couldn’t concentrate on my work, and the start of headaches. I remember thinking am I just getting stupid I just couldn’t do the things I use to and felt I needed to leave this job before I blow up at someone or cause a major mistake. I took some time away thinking this is all due to stress so I started working for a very small company hoping it wouldn’t be so stressful, but the brain tumor just kept getting larger and causing more issues with my memory and concentration. When you have a hammer pounding on your head and you’re trying to fix a technical problem you just seem to want to run away from all of it.

I am lucky at the time I had a girlfriend that truly cared for me and put up with everything that was happening to me. It was a ship that was slowly sinking and it was just a matter of time before it did. The one thing people always ask me why didn’t you go get checked, but I hate hospitals and already had enough of that from when I was a kid I guess I knew it was something bad and didn’t want to deal with it. The symptoms got worse and started to be noticeable when I started losing strength in my left arm and leg I think when I finally was forced by my family to go in I had a hard time just to put my shoes on. I was very stubborn that I waited until Sept 2008 to finally be forced to go in but things in the past made it difficult to go in I knew it had something to do with what happened to me as kid and was scared to confront it. When you don’t know what’s coming, it’s easier to accept but when you have been to the place already, and know the pain and suffering you will endure it makes it a lot harder.

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