Tag: meningioma

Simone Giertz Burn Brian

Badass Builder Girl Simone Giertz Discusses Her Plans to Burn Brian the Brain Tumor

I’m not sure I knew of Badass Builder Girl Simone Giertz until this week, but BoingBoing shared a powerful video Tuesday and mentioned that her meningioma, Brian, decided to keep growing after her 2018 brain surgery last May. Most of...

/ February 1, 2019

25 Years Ago Today I Started at Microsoft and…

On June 3, 1991, I began my career at Microsoft. Today is also the one year anniversary of my brain surgery. Both have provided incredible experiences yet only one left me permanently scarred. For the first four years at Microsoft,...

/ June 3, 2016

Meet Lenore, My Radiosurgeon

A visual guide to CyberKnife radiosurgery for my brain tumor.

/ December 3, 2015
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The Gift of Brain Surgery

Ask yourselves questions about whether we want everyone in our society to be cared for in basic ways.

/ November 24, 2015

Why the Doctor Prescribed Viagra for My Brain Tumor

[sc:brain-toc]I’ve never enjoyed waiting for a stranger to examine my prostate but I at least assumed it would happen the morning I went to see a urologist. For several years, I’d noticed a subtle decline in my libido which seemed...

/ October 24, 2015

What We Can Learn From My Brain Tumor

Seize the day is a theme in our culture because we never know how long we have. It's a cliché that's abstract until it isn't.

/ April 25, 2015