Recovered Patients

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Thank you. Hi, everyone. My name's Chelsea Brett. I'm 33 years old and I live in Laguna Hills, California. It's been just over a year and a half since I've been under the care of Dr. Keoni and Dr. Feri at the admin center in Huntington Beach. I have been treated like family. They're very kind and very sweet, and they've nurtured me through the past year and a half. I'm very fortunate and grateful to have met them. And I'm here today because they've asked me to come share my story with you in early 2014. I was living every little girl's dreams. I got engaged to the man of my dreams. I got pregnant with my first child, a little girl named Taylor.

A few months later, we got married barefoot on the beach. I was in such bliss, living and living everything I had dreamed of.

Six months into my pregnancy, I started to develop these intense migraines. I've had migraines before, but nothing like this. And they were continuing to get worse. Then I noticed that I started to lose my profile in my right eye. I saw several eye doctors. They said everything looked normal and finally someone suggested an MRI. An MRI was scheduled immediately within 30 minutes of my scan. Three doctors escorted me and my husband into a VIP room. They sat us down and ever so softly revealed the news. I had a tumor the size of an egg and the left hemisphere of my brain. They told us, Take your time. This will sink in two weeks later.

I couldn't see walk or function anymore. I was in the most agonizing pain and I was rushed to the emergency room. The doctors decided to do another MRI and the tumor had doubled in size. I was booked for an emergency caesarean the next day. The doctors knew they had to get the baby out if we were both going to live. The following morning, I was in the operating room being prepared for caesarean. During the surgery, my brain hemorrhage, my daughter stopped breathing and we both ended up in the ICU.

And then you cue the next.

We were in there for a week. My daughter recovered and I had two weeks to recover from my next big surgery, a craniotomy on September 17th, 2014. I had a seven hour long brain surgery to remove what the doctors thought was a angioma.

They discovered that it was a giant cell, glioblastoma, the size of an orange, which is stage four brain cancer, malignant brain cancer within a couple weeks.

I started chemotherapy and