Dr. David Fajgenbaum

I was able to just see my mom just before her brain surgery.

And then we went to Duke for her brain surgery.

And...

Yeah, so before the brain surgery, they just said it's a brain tumor.

It looks like it's brain cancer, but we need to go in there and actually see what it is.

So, you know, my family and I, we were just so just nervous about everything because, you know, they did warn us before that, you know, the person that comes out of surgery isn't always the person that goes into surgery.

Yeah.

And I remember going back to see my mom with my dad, my two older sisters.

And she had this wrap around her head.

She had a bandage around her head from where the tumor had been resected.

And she had this bulb that was coming out of the incision site.

It drains out fluid from the incision.

And we were all so nervous.

No one really knew what to say.

I said, you know, mom, how are you doing?

And she pointed up at her head with this bulb and the wrap around it and she said, Chiquita Banana Lady, which is like referring to like – if you look at the sticker on your bananas, there's like – there's the Chiquita Banana Lady.

She has a wrap and she's got all the fruit.

Her head kind of looked like the Chiquita Banana Lady and like –

It was exactly what we needed.

It was like exactly what we needed.