Author: Timstrong

Back in June 2006, the summer before my senior year of high school I started this rollercoaster ride and was diagnosed with Leukemia. Then fast forward two years of treatment with chemo and a few hip surgeries including having both my hips replaced. I still managed to graduate high school in 2007 while fighting cancer and treating. I took 2 years college tuition as my make a wish and determined right there that I was going to beat cancer and be a college graduate. But little did I know that I was going to have another fight with cancer in the form of brain tumor come May 2013. A Grade II astrocytoma to be precise. I ended up having to put college on the back burner to fight this battle and I came out on top again. Now what brings me to why I'm starting this blog. I recently managed to fulfill my dream and graduated college on May 9th 2018. Unfortunately only to find out the very next day that my tumor had come back and appeared to be a higher grade.

Quick August Update

The world wind of my life continues. I am kinda at a loss with what to talk about. August has been a pretty chill month with not much happening. My birthday and my mothers birthday was this month. Other than that I have stayed in milwaukee most the month. My mother hit the big 60 […]

Who’s Gon Stop Me!!

I just can’t contain myself. I know it’s not a full year yet. But the change I see. All over. Even in my face. The left looks like a face of a defeated man. The right is a thriving man. I flipped the script and decided it was time to fight like hell to live. […]

Change The World- One person at a Time

July has been a world wind. With travel, camp,media events, and making impacts wherever I am. Whether I’m at home in Milwaukee WI, or Washington D.C. Today I’m in Orange County California to meet with others that are truly effected by GBM. We have an event called “Life on play day” At the start of […]

Emotional Rollercoaster

Today I had a follow up appointment to talk about my MRI I had this week. This was a follow up MRI from last month which showed tumor growth. Today my doctor show my new MRI to the tumor board and they all came to the conclusion that my tumor isn’t showing growth and […]

FD Rock Climbing Weekend

The weekend at Devils Lake with the First Decent clan. Mixed with all sorts of emotions. Laughter, sadness, hardships, compassion and probably a lot more. Seeing a mixture of people connecting and challenging each other was amazing. I myself went through a lot of those emotions. I have prided myself on being able to accomplish […]

Don’t Judge A Book

Lately things have been a world-wind becoming an ambassador for novocure which will allow me to travel and talk about optune and what is does and has done for me. Here’s what also has been happening. This week has been chemo week which means my energy level has been down. But I’m handling it with […]

Whatever It Takes

Today was MRI day. It showed that the Temodar and Optune are working but just not enough. I have been having some numbness in the left hand and fingers. This is considered a focal seizure. When I have symptoms like this, that means something is happening in my brain. We had a talk about what […]