HeadStrong: Amy’s Story
03.15.21
It was 7:50 a.m. on a Friday in April 2013, and Amy Toconita Hodge was standing in her kitchen as her vision changed. It felt like she had been staring at a bright light, and suddenly the center of he...
Brain Tumor
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Years After Loss, Grief Still Surfaces as ‘Price of Love’
02.24.20
My husband, Tom Vinje, was diagnosed in March 2008 with a glioblastoma brain tumor. He passed away seven months later, in October 2008. We were together 11 years, married for nine. Tom was one of thos...
Caregiver-Turned-Patient Shares 14 Ways to Help That are Truly Helpful
12.20.19
I first became a CaringBridge author in March 2012, after my husband, Bob, was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder called POEMS syndrome. It is a shirt-tail relative to cancer, and required Bob to ha...
The CaringBridge Project
11.26.19
In the rush of medical appointments and questions from loved ones after the symptom of headaches turned into a brain-tumor diagnosis, Caroline Wright’s aunt pointed her toward CaringBridge in 20...
I’m Grateful for my CaringBridge Community, and Always Will Be
11.26.19
In February 2017, at age 32, I was diagnosed with a glioblastoma. Other than a few strange weeks right before my MRI that found the brain tumor, I had no idea anything was wrong. We had just settled i...
Listen in on a Doctor/Patient Heart-to-Heart
05.23.18
Jonathan Adler, PhD, left, Dr. Annie Brewster, Dr. John Trusheim and Michael Bischoff at a healing story session hosted by Health Story Collaborative. CaringBridge author Michael Bischoff of Minneapol...
Healing Gifts Come From Nature, Art, Community … Love
09.20.17
My understanding of the main work of healing is receiving love, and opening up to that. Medical treatments complement that, and can support that. But the essence of healing is really opening up to lov...
Karate Kid Delivers Roundhouse Kick to Brain Tumor
09.20.17
I named my brain tumor Joe Bully. He’s the worst bully ever. Joe Bully is really, really, really mean, and he messed with the wrong boy.
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One Writer’s Incredible Story of Hope, Beauty, and Glioblastoma
08.15.17
The thing about terminal cancer is that sometimes you don’t feel sick. “I feel, weirdly, completely healthy,” Caroline Wright of Seattle said, 6 months after receiving a diagnosis of...
How to Talk to a Sick Kid, From a Former Sick Kid
07.06.17
By the start of first grade, Molly M., of Minnesota, had learned the ropes of health care. A survivor of brain tumor surgeries at ages 2 and 6, she had endured enough needle-pokes to take charge of IV...