As a brain tumor survivor, I must admit that going into and coming out of my operations I felt many, many emotions…and gratitude isn’t one of them.

I have felt sad, upset, despondent, anger and sorry for myself.  But I don’t remember feeling “grateful”. I suspect that neither has other brain tumor victims and friends and families.

Strangely, I’ve had folks tell me something like “you should be grateful, it could have been a lot worse”, which I have always found particularly…