Author: Greg
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Everything is fucked.
Stay positive. I get admired for my positive outlook, but it’s just like going to the gym. Fitness doesn’t build itself and staying upbeat is the same thing. Staying positive takes focused, structured practice. It’s exhausting. But the alternative is worse. Here’s what life was like after brain surgery: I couldn’t find my body. I […]
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There are three of us here.
Recovering from brain surgery is like having three of us here, all with slightly different ideas about how stuff works. There’s my sense of self, which is trying to keep track of everything and hold it all together. And the physical body, which has forgotten all its habitual movements and freezes into weird positions. And […]
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Introduction. To brain cancer. And me.
Learning to live with brain cancer