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Tale of a Brain Tumor Warrior

Hey folks, it's Trevor here once again sharing another book review. This one is going to be a lot of fun to do. This particular person's book has had a big impact on so many people in the brain tumor community. So without further ado, we have a surprise for a very special person. He happens to think I rock and just for that, he certainly will get a dog bone, I mean a great review. BOL The book is titled, How Horseshoes Saved My Life: A tale of two brain tumors, by Rick Franzo.  Brenda became friends with Rick through his group that he started, Brain Tumor Talk. Wonderful title isn't it? Anyway, he had been working on writing this book and asked Brenda if she would like to see a rough not (ruff) draft? BOL I'm a dog, so ruff would make sense to me. So she read it and couldn't put it down. She just knew this was going to be a great book when it was published. She has spoken with Rick on the phone several times and one time, he asked her if should...

A Tale of 2 Teeth

Hi, Trevor here once again, to share another tale of Brenda's life. This is going to be about 2 teeth, that have been her nemesis for many years. Our title was inspired by the great author, Charles Dickens, with his Tale of Two Cities. We promise you, ours will not be that long. BOL It did start many years ago, with a nerve dying in one tooth, so a root canal was performed, by a dentist who specializes in them. By the time this was all said and done, several dentists and specialists will have been involved in this case. This was very complex to say the least. So she had the root canal performed almost on the wrong tooth, as he decided before starting, to test the nerves and low and behold, it was the tooth next to it. A crown was put on later and it seemed to be alright. Then the next tooth, the one that almost got a root canal in the first place, starting aching bad, so they decided to put a crown on it. She was told that a root canal was possible...