'Every day is an adventure. You can't let sadness last too long because the illness starts winning. Instead, acknowledge it and look past it.'
," with the mission of connecting"patients to the healing properties of music and connect the public to the patients." Grace Wethor is not your typical 17-year-old. For many 17-year-olds, the movie title can be an apt description.
But when she reached age 13, she, in her words, began"feeling sick and tired and started losing passion for things such as figure skating." For a while, the health care system couldn't figure out what was going on with her. She said that she went to pediatricians and"a lot of hospitals," but was"told that she was depressed," and it was"just a teenager things that she will get through.
Eventually, doctors performed imaging of her head, which yielded a shocking diagnosis: a brain tumor, specifically a glioma of the brain stem. Even worse, this glioma was located at a location in the pons making it untreatable. With too many vital structures close by, surgery and radiation therapy were not possible. As Wethor explained, chemotherapy would not adequately cross her blood-brain barrier. With little recourse, she was given an 8% chance of survival. Things looked very grim.
Wethor remembered,"Being in a room, being shown brain scans, and being confused. I sat and stared at the wall, shocked. It was a moment of grief." This was on Wethor was Tenn Vogue's"It Girl" and has hosted Nickelodeon's Teen Choice Awards. What then did Wethor eventually do? She decided to keep on living and in fact, amp her career up several levels.
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