Blogging in B Minor

About Me

My name is Mark Miller and I am a singer/songwriter originally from Orange County, CA and now residing in the Sacramento, CA area. I am a father, husband, son and brother and in December, 2006 my life was forever changed when I was diagnosed with a primary brain tumor – a grade 3 malignant glioma. I [...]

Storytellers

As songwriters, we all center our songs around a central message. When we begin to craft a song we ask ourselves a few important questions: a) what do we want say, b) how do we want to say it and c) whom do we want to say it to? We accomplish this in a number [...]

News

Various Brain Tumor Medical News Stories
Science Daily - Brain Cancer
Medpage Today – Brain Cancer
National Brain Tumor Society News

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First Surgery Update

I wanted to post an update here even though I don’t have a lot of energy. It’s the easiest way to keep everyone up to speed instead of repeating everything over and over. I would like to thank everyone for your thoughts and prayers. It is so much appreciated. [...]

Update on Keegan and My Treatment

Keegan is doing really good. He had a bit of an issue with jaundice for several days that we were monitoring closely but that seems to be ok at this point. We took him to the doctor just to have him checked out. Everything looks great but he had us go to [...]

Brain Tumor Books

I wanted to take a minute and post some information related to some books I’ve picked up over the past months that have really been invaluble to me in researching my condition. I did a lot of research in picking and choosing the books I wanted to dedicate time towards and these have been [...]

Radiation and Chemo Started

Just a quick post and update. I started radiation yesterday and then followed that by chemotherapy last night using the drug temodar. The radiation was fairly uneventful. The cumulative effects of this treatment are not supposed to show effects until week 2 or 3 and then again in weeks 5 and 6. [...]

IMRT Brain Tumor Radiation Treatment Pictures

For those of you who may wonder what it is like to undergo radiation treatment, I had the radiation technicians take some photographs for me. For anyone about to go through this – it looks frightening but you get used to it. For others who are curious, the mesh “mask” you see is to keep [...]