Each day in conjunction with Go Grey for May, I’m sharing incredible stories of our community of Brain Cancer Warriors. Buy a T shirt, Beanie or wear an old grey t shirt to support the movement around Brain Cancer. 

Lee Jimison

Diagnosed 9/2019 at age 61. Passed away 3/2021 from Glioblastoma Multiforme wild type, right frontal lobe... Married for 33 years, 2 children, 1 grandchild. Lee was the love of my life! We shared 33 wonderful years together. We went on the trip of a lifetime in July 2019, and he was diagnosed Sept 3, 2019 after showing almost no symptoms. He endured 3 brain surgeries, one brain hemorrhage, Optune, radiation, chemo, as well as changes to diet and supplants. We through everything at the disease! He loved helping others and the hardest thing was when he could no longer build or fix things. He loved to MTB and was in great shape other than the GBM. He kept up hope til the end. I am finding more and more people around me with GBM and hope that they will some day find a cure!

Each day in conjunction with Go Grey for May, I’m sharing incredible stories of our community of Brain Cancer Warriors. Buy a T shirt, Beanie or wear an old grey t shirt to support the movement around Brain Cancer. 

Each day in conjunction with Go Grey for May, I’m sharing incredible stories of our community of Brain Cancer Warriors. Buy a T shirt, Beanie or wear an old grey t shirt to support the movement around Brain Cancer. 

Well this ones going to be a hard one.

But honouring my man on my birthday. And my gosh I miss you more then ever. 

COOKIE (Peter) Cook born 25th March 1991 and passed 6th November 2020 after a short 3 month battle with stage 4 GBM, located in the Thalamus. I’ve shared Cookies battle many times in hopes that it raises awareness for people to go get checked. Who even at the age 29 thinks that something like this would kill you. 

Cookie faught a an unthinkable battle during the shittest time of Covid 19. Diagnosed in late July 2020 to receiving his first emergency surgery operation without being able to be by his side or hold his hand because mid pandemic - to losing him only 104 days later. 

You’ve left behind so many hopes dreams and a fuk load of love. Our kids are growing up, Reeds starting to talk and whenever I look at him he looks back with this smile and all I see is you. I am really struggling to write this, even 6 months on it hurts more then ever....... every little thing, you’re missing out on. 

I hope you’re having a bloody blast up there while I’m down here trying my hardest to help even get that little bit closer to a cure. Have a beer or ten I’ll cheers to you tonight. 

Forever loving you more. 

Each day in conjunction with Go Grey for May, I’m sharing incredible stories of our community of Brain Cancer Warriors. Buy a T shirt, Beanie or wear an old grey t shirt to support the movement around Brain Cancer. 

My Dads name was Dennis Franklin.

He was born on the 18th of Feb 1958 and passed away on the 3rd of July 2007. He was diagnosed in late may 2005 (I’m pretty sure) after a few days of feeling off and having headaches. My mum woke up to him having a seizure in the middle of the night. He went to Geelong Hospital and had CT and/or MRI and then they sent him straight to the Alfred. He had surgery a day or two later where they did a biopsy, and was confirmed malignant immediately and had as much removed as possibly. He had radiation in Geelong, and Chemo in the form of a tablet. I was 13 at the time he was diagnosed, my little sister 9 and little brother 3. We live in Geelong and all my mums family in Victoria, but my dads family live in WA. So we moved in 2006 so he could spend the rest of his life with them, and so my Aunty and cousins could help look after him and us kids while mum still went to work.

He was on medical emergency at the Alfred which he loved, he had two eps that he was included in.

I wanted to say. I have followed you for a while now and I am in awe at your strength and bravery. I know how hard it can be, but I can’t imagine losing my partner and my kids father. It is a terrible realisation as it takes the naivety out of the way we live our lives. The worst case happened to us so now everything is immediately the worst case. I struggle with anxiety, and take medication too which I couldn’t function without. I don’t think it’s obvious to me even after 14 years, how much this impacted me. 

Each day in conjunction with Go Grey for May, I’m sharing incredible stories of our community of Brain Cancer Warriors. Buy a T shirt, Beanie or wear an old grey t shirt to support the movement around Brain Cancer. 

Name: Kai Michael Raecke

DOB 12/22/56,

DOD:4/22/2020

Kai was a well known motorcycle photojournalist and editor for Easyriders Magazine. He was married to a preschool teacher and between the two of them they had a blended family of 5 daughters. Kai was an adventurous spirt who loved to travel the world and an avid reader. His left temporal lobe tumor impaired his speech, but not his spirit. Up until a week prior to his passing, he wrote a book despite the limited function he had with his right hand. If he had one message to pass on to anyone, it would be to follow your dreams and live life to the fullest our days are counted here on earth, love with all your heart and have no regrets. In bringing awareness to this disease, he would say be a champion for your own health, there may be little signs that you may overlook which could be early symptoms of the disease. Until there is a cure, seeking early treatment may help extend the time you spend with your loved ones. More funding needs to go towards prevention and successful treatment of this disease. If the government can send a rover to the planet Mars, they can invest the same amount of money in finding a successful treatment for all cancers.

Each day in conjunction with Go Grey for May, I’m sharing incredible stories of our community of Brain Cancer Warriors. Buy a T shirt, Beanie or wear an old grey t shirt to support the movement around Brain Cancer. 

Name: Warren Ramm
Age: 49 DOD: 29/4/2010
Location of tumour: brain
Time frame battling: 5 months
Married with 3 kids
I miss you everyday ❤️