Life Lessons Learned From My Brain Tumour Diagnosis

13 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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A man diagnosed with a brain tumor in August reflects on the shock and fear it triggered, comparing it to his father's death 13 years prior. He moved through grief and realized he'd been postponing life, assuming time was infinite. The diagnosis forced him to reassess what actually matters.

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So in August, um, just gone, so I got diagnosed with a brain tumor. In that process, so when we— I got the news in August, and it, uh, the, the only thing I can ever compare— I mean, there's probably plenty of people listening who've had health scares, but what my compar— closest comparison was when my dad passed away 13 years ago. That's how I felt at the time. It's just horrible and scary, and you don't know what's going on. Um, went through all of those stages of like grieving with it and everything else. I, I was like There's, there's a message, there's a lesson in this. I need to take something from this. And again, I, I can't— I— what I realized was that I'd actually been putting off a heck of a lot of things just because I believed that life was infinite.