Before his diagnosis of the brain cancer, he was very career-oriented and described his former life as ‘fairly hectic’ at work. At the same time, he tried to find a balance between his personal and professional identities.
“I had a life that I really tried to balance work and family and friends, but work was a big part of it,” he said.
Now Stuart has had the opportunity to ‘design’ his life again, giving more priority over the things that matter the most.
“I make time to see family, to do more family things, to spend more time with friends, to get those holidays,” he later continued, “it really raised my focus and what really is important to me. I think I hear that with a significant disease, a terminal illness, only the ability to Rocus.”
Of course, even with the positive points he has gained from his experience, Stuart is still fighting with the uncertainty of all this. Do not know how long the medication will work. Do not know what the results of his next MRI will be. And not knowing when he receives news that even more adjustments to his already changed life requires.
“It started when more just understanding how long I have? And what will happen afterwards? Now it is more about just knowing that this is always in the background,” he said. “There is still the cadence that I know that one of my MRIs will show at some point that, okay, something else has grown and we have to do something about it.”
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