Brilliant Corners.

I never thought I'd be living this summer. At home cooking, cleaning, and tending to my father. I, like many other 21 year olds, cherish the summer as play time. Hiking, traveling, camp fires, parties, concerts, happy hours and dating. But I had a different calling this summer.
My father, Lee Fouts, has been struggling with brain cancer for the last six years. When he was first diagnosed the doctors told us he had six months to live. Six months later he had entered his first remission. I was 16 at the age of his first diagnosis.
He had been in and out of the hospital with reoccurring, blinding headaches. On my sixteenth birthday in October of 2004 he was rushed into the hospital for having a, so the doctors said then, a stroke. After more months of complications we found out soon after Christmas and after him suffering a grand maul seizure, that he had been suffering from a fast growing brain tumor. The tumor type is one called a "Glioblastoma".
To put this into perspective I'll start with saying that brain cancer is statistically the rarest form of cancer diagnosed and a gliobastoma is THE rarest form of brain cancer. There are less than 200,000 cases of gliobastomas diagnosed in the U.S. I think I had read somewhere that 25 million people were diagnosed with cancer in the United States in 2006.
After his first remission he continued to struggle with tumor growth trying new radiations and chemotherapies. In the spring of 2008 he went in for another surgery and another in the winter of 2009.
This blog is set up to document the summer, and hopefully coming years, of my family. Specifically my father's battle with cancer. I plan to talk about his treatments, his experience, our family, our adventures, our struggles, and our triumphs. People are constantly telling me to share my story. So here we are. Let the story begin. I will be divulging through series of posts our story of the past and also journal entries of the present. And tons of prayers for the future.