Jun 10, 2022 | STORIES
Toni’s Blog Helps Brain Tumour Patients Blogger, Toni Burness has been writing a comprehensive blog about her brain tumour journey that will be a ‘must read’ for many brain tumour patients. Toni writes: “My hope is to create more awareness about the impact it has on...
Mar 25, 2022 | STORIES
Jenelle Ramstadius was the mother of my four children and was my wife for 27 years. It is difficult to summarise what made her such an inspiration to our family and her friends, but some background on the first few weeks of her GBM battle will give you some insight....
Feb 27, 2022 | STORIES
Introduction A diagnosis of a brain tumour is likely to prove stressful for everyone involved. Roles are likely to change too and with change comes stress. Some people will show a commitment to the patient, while others will drift away from the patient’s life....
Feb 11, 2022 | STORIES
When I was diagnosed with anaplastic astrocytoma in 2010, it was a no-brainer that I would donate my tumour to the tissue bank at RPA. Some months later my brilliant neurosurgeon Brindha Shivalingam told me that a medical research project had been able to discover...
Jan 29, 2022 | STORIES
A story about complications is not going to be popular. So, if you’re due for a craniotomy, I’d stop reading. But then again, maybe I’m a good news story? It all depends on how you see this. In May 2017, I had a partial resection of a meningioma where one of the risks...
Jan 29, 2022 | STORIES
My children spent their lives waiting around emergency rooms or at my hospital bedside visiting me, while I recovered from another round of neurosurgery or multiple seizures. The seizures needed to be controlled as I would suffer serious depression because I was a...
