Alea O'Shea

Like I was just so go, go, go that I think I just thought it wouldn't get better.

But so number one, just like if you notice something is off with yourself, like investigate it further.

Because we have that intuition as women where it's like something ain't right.

But again, I brushed it off.

And then, yeah, in the medical system, like...

it was going back and forth between the infection team and the neuro team because like there has been nothing normal about this journey for me which is like getting brain cancer at 25 is already rare enough but the way mine showed up looked like it could be an infection or a tumor whereas usually it shows up it's very clearly one or the other so they just operate but mine had like

Me getting medical, for sure it was like endocrosis or something, which usually is tumor.

But the size it was or where it was, it's very rare that someone your age would have that.

So we want to test for an infection.

And that's why for me it was like back and forth for so long.

And then they were like, we have to do a biopsy.

Which, yeah, none of it was usual.

But in the end I was like, do the biopsy.

Like I can't sit here.

and wait and i was doing treatment for both like and unfortunately the treatment for the neuro people was like just see if your hand gets worse like just watch and wait and i was like i don't think i feel good about this anymore after like a week so um yeah in the end

I remember going to the teams.

I was like, I shouldn't be giving the information between teams.

Like the infection team would come in.

I'm like, the neuro team said this.

The neuro team would come in.