One in a Million
By Katy B.
CERN Inspiration Story
As I write, I am a few months shy of the 30th anniversary of my diagnosis. I grew up in California. In early fall of 1989, I had been throwing up first thing in the morning once a week for maybe four or five months, and then feeling fine. I had a CT scan and while I sat with mom in the waiting room of my pediatrician’s office for the results, my mom tells me, “it’s a one in a million chance that anything is wrong baby girl! The doctor just wants to make sure.” I still remember the red chairs and my doctor telling me, “Katy, from the CT, um… it looks like you have a brain tumor.” I don’t remember my reaction.
My parents took me to a local cancer hospital, where I was told I was diagnosed with an ependymoma, and probably a grade II. My pediatric neurosurgeon performed the surgery to remove the tumor that was located at the base of my brain.
