In Verses & Song

For Childhood Cancer Awareness Month , I’m sharing how our journey to my child’s cure from pediatric brain cancer began. The signs of a tumor that were there — that at the time, we didn’t know were symptoms. I do so to help save another child’s life. My child was 14 at the time, beginning 9th grade and high school. My child is now 15, and a Survivor. In October 2022, the brain tumor was found via an MRI, which was ordered following an eye exam. We scheduled the eye exam in late September, after noticing the left eye tracking differently from the right. We had to wait a couple weeks for the appointment, which at the time seemed acceptable to us as they did not have any visual complaints. We would later learn this was because their brain had adapted to letting the right eye do all the work. It was the optometrist at a local eyeglass shop that took retinal images and recommended we go straight to an ER. Without telling us, the optometrist knew what was there. So it was the eyes that lead