My name is Jennifer. I have brain cancer. I am a 30 year old who lives in a small town in Oklahoma. I am married to a really spectacular man and a mom to a very adorable dog. I grew up in a different small town in Oklahoma. In 2007 I graduated with a degree in Surgical Technology and started working at St. Francis Hospital. I worked there from August 2007 until September 2014. For 6 of those years I was on the neurosurgery team and spent most days assisting in and setting up for all of the standard neurosurgical procedures, including the one I would eventually have. During those years I even gave lectures at the school I had attended on craniotomies. I feel that I have a unique perspective of knowing both sides of the brain cancer coin. Honestly, I didn’t really know what happened after the patients left the operating room. I had no real idea of what having a brain tumor meant in the long run. Now, I understand that intimately. My whole life is changed because of this.
