Today March 18, 2015 is my 17-year anniversary from a brain tumor diagnosis. Transformative thoughts about the experience and many years since then bring me to profound gratitude for being alive. Thank you to God, angels, spirit, my soul, parents, brother, sister-in-law, nephew, nieces, friends, colleagues, and countless other people that have helped me in my journey. My personal landscape includes tremendous kindness from those visible and invisible to support my optimal health and healing. And as I look at my internal mirror during my life, including since 1998, I connect with memories that sometimes became shelved, others shifted, and at times disappeared into the mystery. In reflecting, I felt inspired to organize some of my photos from years past. This photo exhibit Brain, Body, Being offers some selections with surgery in 1998, 2011, and 2013. From there, photos convey radiation and oral chemotherapy, as well as immunotherapy DCVax-L dendritic cell-based vaccine. Finally, photos show some messages in my life with whole person health and healing.
- Before Awake Brain Surgery 1998
- After Awake Brain Surgery 1998
- Brain Healing 1998 from NIH
- After Awake Brain Surgery 2011
- Few Days after Surgery 2011
- Brain Healing 2011 from UCSF
- After Awake Brain Surgery 2013
- Few Days after Surgery 2013
- Brain Healing 2013 from UCLA
- UCLA Radiation Department’s creation of my mask to stabilize my head during radiation
- Losing some hair during radiation
- Inside the Radiation Chamber in February and March of 2014
- Leukapheresis to collect my white blood cells
- Immunotherapy DCVax-L Dendritic Cell-Based Vaccine created with my brain tumor & white blood cells
- Injection of DCVax-L given on both arms every two weeks for three in total during May & June 2014
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