Another Beautiful Bad-Ass Brain Tumor Blogger: “The Everywhereist”

I love reading brain tumor blogs. I especially like blogs written by Beautiful Bad-Ass Brain Tumor Bloggers. One of my favorites is “The EveryWhereist.”

This is her post from June 27^th, 2012 - http://www.everywhereist.com/wtf-weds-i-have-a-brain-tumor-ive-named-it-steve/ 

It’s raw, sardonic, sarcastic, indulgent, scatological, stream-of-consciousness writing that makes you feel like she’s sitting across from you at a great coffee shop and doesn’t give a shit who hears her … because she knows she’s in the fight of her life with a relentless, deadly, diabolical brain tumor that is attacking her brain with all its force and venom and trickery.

The fact that she named her tumor “Steve,” is both hilarious and telling. If you read nothing else, read why she named her brain tumor “Steve.” (I named my tumor “The Blob.”)

John

PS - If you have a brain tumor blogger you love, send me a note.

Samantha Kittle: A Beautiful Badass Brain Tumor Blogger

I feel like I need to spell out some rules for my Beautiful Bad-Ass Brain Tumor Blogger (BBABTB ) list.

First, they’ve had to have had a brain tumor. And, usually, they are still battling a brain tumor/its horrific consequences. Unfortunately, this leaves a whole lot of candidates.

Secondly, they have to be beautiful. While physical beauty won’t disqualify anybody, I’m particularly interested in spiritual beauty - an inner beauty that glows so fiercely it just pours out of their writing and thoughts and observations. These are women who can be beautiful in spite of losing their hair, wearing a dorky hospital gown or being in the middle of an endless series of chemo treatments.

Next, they blog often and honestly and unrepentantly. They write about inner feelings that most guys will never admit to. Their postings make you feel like you’re their best friend and they’re talking to you over a cup of black coffee the first thing in the morning.

They also swear a lot. I've read posts that'd take paint off a battleship.

Lastly, and most subjectively, they have to be a Badass. Now there is not universal agreement as to the definition of a Badass. The Urban Dictionary has a whole series of definitions - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=badass – but all of them seem to describe Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction.

For me, somebody who is Badass has a sardonic, almost aggressive and what-the-hell mash-up of attitudes towards their disease, their work life and their personal life.

Ms. Samantha Kittle - http://www.alieofthemind.com/ - is one such BBABTB.

John

PS - Right now she’s running a “best of” series of blog postings. The postings are sad, insightful, educational, frightening, laugh-out-loud funny, and brutally honest. Don’t miss them, because she is one Beautiful, Badass, Brain Tumor Blogger.

Beautiful Bad-Ass Brain Tumor Bloggers: Kaylin Andres Spotlight

When I came home from the hospital without a good chunk of my skull (resected due to an infection from my surgery) I yearned to find folks like me –brain tumor victims who were fighting a battle against a seemingly relentless and demonic disease.

Almost through sheer luck, I then discovered an entire tribe of brutally honest, utterly defiant and powerfully angry brain tumor and cancer bloggers. They were sick; they were mad and they were going to tell the world about it.

One of my favorite Bad-Ass Brain Tumor Bloggers is Kaylin Andres. Her blog is sardonically entitled Cancer is Hilarious which, of course, means it’s not.  As I’ve previously written, she writes about her medical and health challenges with intimacy and rage and honesty that makes me feel likes she’s talking to her best friend over coffee.

As of Feb. 4^th she was in the hospital and wrote wonderfully about her latest surgery. Here’s a link to that posting: http://cancerisnotfunny.blogspot.com/

If you read it, be sure to click the “flipping the bird” link.

John

PS – If you’d like to nominate another Beautiful Bad-Ass Brain Tumor Blogger for a “spotlight” posting, send me a note.