A Brain Tumour Survivors guide to life. Gary, Marty and Me.

In this episode I look back over the first 5 days of my recovery post operation and try to give some comfort and encouragement to anyone who has such an operation coming up.

This podcast has been created to try and raise money and awareness of the Brain Tumour Charity who fund research looking for a cure for people like me who have an incurable brain tumour. If you wold like to help you can do so through my Just Giving page at www.justgiving/fundraising/stuart-hannah

Thanks

Stu x

In this episode I am out and about for the first time since getting home from the hospital on a beautiful day in Harrrogate, watching with envy as my wife goes for a run, while I had to wait 6 weeks before starting again.

You can tell from my voice that I am glad to be alive after surgery and glad to be free of hospital wards and my bedroom.

If you wold like to support my fundraising for the Brain Tumour Charity you can do so here at my Just Giving page www.justgiving/fundraising/stuart-hannah

Thanks

Stu x

This is the first of a series of episodes recorded around the time of my last operation in December 2022, capturing my thoughts and emotions after having my second brain surgery in a year. These are my unscripted thoughts as I try to recover from the surgery. My podcast is trying to raise money for the Brain Tumour Charity who carry out vital research and work to raise awareness of brain tumours, If you would like to help you can donate at www.justgiving/fundraising/stuart-hannah.

Thanks

Stu x

In this episode I remember the first time that I needed glasses and how they gave me a new clarity of vision. My diagnosis had the same effect, making me try and see life in a new way, appreciating every detail and moment.

If you would like to support the work of the Brain Tumour Charity, I have a just giving page at www.justgiving.com/stuart-hannah.

Thanks for listening. Please rate this podcast as it will help it reach more people and raise more for the charity. xx

In this episode I look back at my childhood Christmas's and my first Christmas with Gary and Marty.  I talk about a meeting with my Glioma Neurosurgeon because of worsening symptoms but despite this it ended with my wife and I in hysterical laughter.

If you would like to support the work of the Brain Tumour Charity, I have a just giving page at www.justgiving.com/stuart-hannah.

Thanks for listening. Please rate this podcast as it will help it reach more people and raise more for the charity. xx

Based on my blog I share my story of surviving (so far at least) having two different types of brain tumours. I use humour and positivity to keep going and I hope this might help or inspire others through their life after a brain tumour diagnosis.

My first meeting with my Neurosurgeons suddenly made this whole experience feel very real!  Hospitals are familiar ground for me thanks to my 36 years married to a Radiographer so I wasn't worried about my time that was planned to be spent on a ward.

If you would like to support the work of the Brain Tumour Charity, I have a just giving page at www.justgiving.com/stuart-hannah.

Thanks for listening. Please rate this podcast as it will help it reach more people and raise more for the charity. xx

In the first episode, I talk about the power of words to change your life and how the direction of our lives changed completely with the words "I'm sorry Mr Hannah but you have two brain tumours". In this series I will talk about the coping mechanisms that have got me through some dark moments and the fact that you can still find humour in even the most difficult circumstances.

I hope this podcast will help those diagnosed after me to understand what is to come and take some of the mystery and fear out of the process.

Stu x

If you would like to support the work of the Brain Tumour Charity, I have a just giving page at www.justgiving.com/stuart-hannah.

Thanks for listening. Please rate this podcast as it will help it reach more people and raise more for the charity. xx