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Glad you're here! 💜 From Evolution to Survival: navigating the beauty and challenges of midlife all while fighting glioblastoma terminal brain cancer with grace and dignity.

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OVERDUE UPDATE

In Glioblastoma Cancer  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, December 8, 2025  •   Leave a Comment
How about an update out of the blue? It’s been a while – several weeks – and my poor old hand is just about too shaky to work. A lot has happened in several weeks…. If you’ll remember correctly I was really struggling with nausea...
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MEDICAL UPDATE

In Glioblastoma Cancer  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, September 1, 2025  •   Leave a Comment
WHAT A RIDE I’M ON…and I hate it. H-A-T-E Admittedly, my vibe is bad. My eyebrows are so furled over my often-teary eyes, that I can’t see many silver linings these days. Hear me out…I CAN see those glimmers. I haven’t lost my faith, and...
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❤️‍🩹 I love y’all.

#powerinthepurple
#graceanddignity
#pray4msa

In Glioblastoma Cancer, Inspiring & Encouraging  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, July 22, 2025  •   Leave a Comment
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JUST WANT SLEEP

In Glioblastoma Cancer, Inspiring & Encouraging  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, July 3, 2025  •   Leave a Comment
Sllleeepppp! All I wanted to do today was sleep! I am perpetually exhausted. Who knows why? Could be one thing or the combination of all the thousand things going on in a given moment. Keith brought Brady to the hospital to see me (we aren’t...
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IF I COULD BE ANYWHERE ELSE

In Glioblastoma Cancer, Inspiring & Encouraging, Stories & Reflections  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, July 2, 2025  •   Leave a Comment
If I could be anywhere else… I would be at Lake Ouachita camping with my kids and Keith, laughing around a campfire. Campfire smoke smells so good. I would be on Bleeker Street in Greenwich Village, NYC, on the look out for a place with...
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CARRYING AROUND HOPE AS A LITTLE TREAT

In Glioblastoma Cancer, Inspiring & Encouraging  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, June 29, 2025  •   Leave a Comment
Keith and I are praying over a host of notes I made this morning about my condition, my deficits, and my concerns. Taking brain surgery off the table, at least temporarily, was not on my dance card. I am sorely dejected. There is probably not...
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UNTIL IT’S YOU, YOU HAVE NO IDEA

In Glioblastoma Cancer, Stories & Reflections  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, May 28, 2025  •   Leave a Comment
Things about a terminal cancer diagnosis you have no idea exist until it’s you… On one hand (the gimpy, shakey hand)… 1) You grieve. A lot. You mourn your old self, especially when you see old pics of your “real life” self. 2) You think...
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