Simone Giertz

And that's when I knew that they'd found something.

And then they, like, shoved you back into the machine for another 20 minutes.

And my ex was just seeing, like, them, like, zooming in and out of my scans.

And there was, like, this obviously something that just looked wrong in there.

And they sent me to the ER, and I found out that I had cancer.

A brain tumor the size of a golf ball that probably been grown since I was a teenager.

So it'd been growing over like 10, 15 years.

And yeah, I had surgery to remove it.

And then it kept on growing the parts that they couldn't remove.

And I went through radiation treatment.

So that was like two years that just...

was kind of dedicated to just getting better and getting back to where I am now.

And I remember, like, I was so stoked about 2020 because I was like, this is the first year that I'm not held back by my health.

And I'm like, finally going to be able to do everything I'm feathered.

And then the pandemic happens and you're kind of just like, okay, just in the backseat of what's happening and things that are out of my control again.

I mean, it's terrifying.

It's like, and also when it's in your brain, like, you know, I was like, take any other part of me, but don't take my brain.

No, it's this unfathomable thing that happens and you're like, I'm healthy.

How could this possibly be a brain tumor?

Like my eye is swollen.