Charysse

About Charysse

I am married to Marvin. I have 2 boys. Tyler is 9 and Trent is 5. I am an 8 year brain tumor survivor, and am currently fighting a recurrent grade 3 Oligo-Astrocytoma.

Taking a step of faith

Several weeks ago, I felt like God was speaking to me about where I was putting my faith and trust with this tumor.  Was I putting my ultimate trust in him that he would bring healing to my body, or was I putting all of my faith and trust in the treatments that I've been [...]

By |2010-02-12T17:03:58-08:00February 12th, 2010|Brain tumor treatment|3 Comments

Health updates

For those of you who are on this site to monitor what kind of treatment that I am doing that may be helpful in deciding your treatment plan, I am now adding which treatments that I've been doing in between scans on the 'Health updates' page.  You will be able to see the effects of [...]

By |2009-12-22T16:27:52-08:00December 22nd, 2009|Scans, Treatment|Comments Off on Health updates

Scan time, again…

I recently had a PET and MRI scan done on December 1st.  Both scans are showing the tumor to be stable.  Amazing news!  We decided after the last scan to take out the chemo (Temodar) and just do the natural IV treatment that I've been doing over the past 18 months.  We didn't really feel [...]

By |2016-10-15T20:56:44-08:00December 14th, 2009|Scans, Uncategorized|2 Comments

The swine flu vaccine – helpful or hurtful?

Seriously.  Are there any clever play on words that have yet to be thought of surrounding all of the hoopla of the swine flu virus?  I'm so tired of it headlining everything I watch and read.  You?  But even though I'm becoming immune to caring about anything that has to deal with the subject, I [...]

By |2016-10-15T20:56:44-08:00October 5th, 2009|Uncategorized|Comments Off on The swine flu vaccine – helpful or hurtful?

MRI scan results

I guess it's been awhile since I've been hanging out here.  Facebook makes for lazy bloggers, I think.  Most of you know that I had a scan this morning.  The scan was read extremely quickly, which is probably attributed to the fact that I had to be at the hospital at 6:30.  I knew there [...]

By |2016-10-15T20:56:44-08:00September 15th, 2009|Fodder, Scans|3 Comments
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