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Good luck to all with these issues.

I really consider myself fortunate. For a year or so after the surgeries, I was verklempt when talking about my 'experience'.

Now, I handle it with a little 'gallows humor'.

Whenever the conversation turns to our mortality, I try to lighten the mood.

"I'm a 'living tumor donor'. There was a story in the news about a man in another city with a mysterious shrinking meningioma and the doctors didn't know what to do. I stepped up, had half of my meningioma removed, medevacked it, and the surgeons transplanted into his head. He is doing fine now with a healthy growing tumor."