When she was 20, Stephanie Lipscomb started experiencing the blinding headaches. Doctors initially diagnosed her with a sinus infection and
sent her home with antibiotics. When that didn’t work, they diagnosed
her with migraines and gave her caffeine pills. But the headaches got
more severe.
“I couldn’t bathe myself, dress myself,” Lipscomb says. “All I could do was just lay there in pain.”
When she lost 15 pounds, she finally checked herself into the
emergency room. After an MRI, doctors found a mass the size of a tennis
ball. They operated almost immediately. A biopsy of the tumor confirmed
everyone’s worst fears: it was malignant.
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