Your friend, Logan
I was at the gym working on my “clean and jerk” (which looks like this graphic), when the song “Complex“ started playing through the sound system. The band was Little Tin Frog. The drummer was Logan Whitehurst, a long time friend, fellow drummer, and the most well-respected musician/awesome guy/creative talent among my peers between 1997 and the...
Brain surgery: the inside story (pun slightly intended)
I volunteer as a “Mentor Angel” with a group called Imerman Angels. This organization carefully matches and individually pairs people touched by cancer (a cancer fighter, survivor or caregiver) with someone who has fought and survived the same type of cancer (a Mentor Angel). I’ve been volunteering with Imerman Angels for nearly six months, and before...
Where do brain tumors come from? I want an answer
My posts have been few and far between over the past months because, well, I was preparing for my wedding. And I was working. And on chemo. So those are all good excuses. If you are still following along I appreciate your support and the time you spend reading about my world. It is weird...
In celebration of us
The Bay Area Brain Tumor Walk was incredible and The Liz Army team raised more than $5,000! Not bad for a first time team. There are so many reasons why this day was special to me and I won’t remember them all right now (mainly because I am exhausted from a week of Temodar and...
The person only person I knew with brain cancer before I had brain cancer
This is a re-post from my private blog/journal. I was thinking about Logan and wanted to share. December 6, 2006 My friend Logan Whitehurst passed away yesterday, finally succumbing to brain and spinal cancer. When I found out this morning, I was numb. I got in the shower and cried. Crying in the shower is...
Do you need me?
I am now a patient support volunteer for the National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS). If someone gets diagnosed with a brain tumor they can visit the NBTS Web site and search by tumor type and/or age range to find a volunteer who has gone through a similar experience. Future brain tumor patients will be able...
Cancer treatment for dummies
Note: I feel guilty most of my links refer you to Wikipedia articles, but they’re usually great overviews for a topic. It’s official: I begin chemotherapy next Monday! It seems like a weird thing to be excited about, but I’ve been intrigued by this whole “brain cancer/tumor” thing all along. To begin with, neurology is...
Halloween 1999
I consent to being a ghoulish rocker only if Logan Whitehurst remains part of the rhythm section.
You’re not going to die, you know
My “regular” dream was interrupted last night by a visit from a friend. After this visit I woke up and got to remember everything we said. I was packing a box of The Liz Army shirts for shipment. I wrote a check to pay the receiver for selling them. I thought, Who’s going to pay...
