My first thought after being diagnosed with a brain tumor at age 26 was fear. Would I die? Would the things I worked for no longer be possible? How was I going to handle brain tumor surgery and cancer treatment when I can’t even handle flu shots? Even what I was going to look like with no hair scared me.

I was diagnosed with adult medulloblastoma one month before my graduation from law school. Medulloblastoma is a type of brain...