Chapters Transcript Video Surviving and Living to the Fullest During Continued Care It's just a regular Saturday at the signs house in Laguna, Nagu Sherry Signs and her two grandchildren are doing arts and crafts. But for Sherry, each ordinary moment is a gift. I'm cancer survivor for 30 years. And Doctor Keith Black has saved my life. Her MRI scan at that point, you know, was highly suggestive that she had an aggressive malignant brain tumor in a critical part of her brain. The left frontal lobe, the typical survival for the type of tumor that uh she had on pathology, um was between 2 to 5 years at the time, Sherry and her husband Sean were married just a few years and the parents of two babies, the news was devastating. I wrote letters to them for each of their birthdays. I wrote the letters in case I wasn't here. I was probably most afraid that Sherry wasn't gonna be around to help raise our daughters and they wouldn't have their mother. But that was very short lived because if anybody that knows Sherry knows that she, she wouldn't give up that easy. She's a fighter. She's probably the toughest person. I know Sherry underwent three surgeries too with doctor black. We did a second operation in 1993 again, removed all of the tumor that we could see and continued to follow. Uh her case with very careful monitoring with MRI scans. We saw another abnormality on the MRI in 2003 that we removed. Fortunately, that turned out to be a less aggressive type of tumor. Uh So we got a complete removal of that through it all. Sherry and her family tried to live their best life, vacations, camping, birthdays and graduations continuing on despite the surgery's chemo and radiation. And then another diagnosis in 2007, we saw evidence that the tumor was again, starting to raise his head and starting to recur this time. Uh we did chemotherapy, we continued to monitor her and she hasn't had any evidence of any recurrence since then. Sherry's been cancer free, crediting her strong family and a wonderful doctor. Think positive, never give up and have a good family. Um If you don't have any family, have a good doctor, call doctor Black, I would see her back every year and, and every time I would see her back in my clinic, it would sort of make my day in the clinic because again, you know, here's another, you know, great uh year and great survival story uh of a patient who's, who's managed to survive from a very aggressive, very difficult tumor for us to be able to be parents together. And watch our daughters grow up and graduate high school, graduate college, graduate grad school, continue to their professional careers. And then our oldest daughter getting married and having two grandchildren that now we get to enjoy. Um, those are things that sherry or myself thought we were gonna be able to enjoy together. Created by
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