Medical Stories - Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) Josiah's Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 พ.ค. 2021
- When Josiah began suffering headaches out of nowhere, the timing could not have been worse. His wedding to Lauren, his college sweetheart, was just a month away when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The visit to the neurosurgeon changed their lives but not their plans to marry. Three days after their wedding, Josiah underwent brain surgery. It was only then that the newlyweds learned that the full diagnosis was an aggressive form of brain cancer: Glioblastoma multiforme or GBM. With a careful treatment plan, and Lauren by his side Josiah is planning a future and keeping up his many interests. Watch Josiah’s courageous story on Medical Stories, the Emmy award-winning docuseries on PBS.
Medical Stories, is a new documentary film series produced for PBS / Public Television - taking viewers on an emotional and inspirational journey through cinematic storytelling, as the lens focuses on ordinary people going through extraordinary measures of courage and triumph.
The stories of these brave patients are revealed by their incredible willpower to help inspire, improve and transform the lives of others through their own personal narrative and are reinforced by leading medical experts in the field. At times, the patient experience connects them with a remarkable support base community, which often may help contribute to their positive outcome, through a vast foundation of hope and encouragement.
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Twin sister diagnosed with a GBM 7/2016 & passed away 4/2017. Miss her terribly every day 😢😢
My son Tony was 31 and lasted 18 months this was 2 years ago we miss him every day
Go Josiah! The LORD Jesus Christ will bless you Lauren make it through. I'm a brain cancer/GBM 15 years and still counting. 61 years old.
You should tell Jovita the news reporter your story she was just diagnosed with this
@@kimallen5743 an she passed that’s sad 😢
my son was diagnosed on 2/20. not sure what is next?? please advise. thanks
❤️😃
Bless you my wife has this could you tell me what if anything you did to survive so long
What a beautiful wife. So often the comments are focused on the patient and while I don’t at all discount the magnitude of Josiah’s diagnosis, the caretakers are absolutely amazing. The pain and suffering they experience are just as traumatic, sometimes worse. When you have a loved one who’s fighting with a bleak diagnosis, it’s all consuming. I love the fact they walk through this with Jesus. Life with trust in the Lord is so much easier when we put faith and trust in Him. He’s in control. God bless everyone reading this.
My husband lived 12 months with GBM. Our world was shattered.
My husband lived only 3 misrable months 🥲 terrible disease
My beautiful mommy lived 21 months with GBM my heart feels so much pain from losing her she was very brave through it all 😪
they are very lucky to had the chance to marry each other. i never had the chance to marry my lifepartner, he passed away to cancer after 3,5yrs of fighting. he was the love of my life.
My mom had brain cancer ,and only live for a year after that . I miss my mom very much .
My grandpa passed away from this cancer in 1996. One of the worst cancers there is
15 years is awesome! My cousin has had glioblastoma for almost 3 years now and new tumor developed deep inoperable and now he has pneumonia or ARS -acute respiratory syndrome ( on oxygen)A transfusion happening too. We hope he gains strength and fights this as long as he can. Very difficult for him.
my husband and his brother both lost their lives from GMB it was heart breaking at the time they died 2 years apart i loved your story sharing your journey with us i pray you are still going strong and keeping well it would be lovely to hear from you how you and your wife i am hoping you are still well.
It'll be okay buddy,your a great couple,my mom passed 4 years ago from stage 4.she donated her body to science for brain cancer so I hope it does well for your recovery😊
I just lost my best friend of 47 years from glioblastoma last many. My heart is broken. She was so beautiful inside and out. Her brother had passed from the same about 7 years ago and she was heartbroken. Little did we know she would develop the same. She was gone almost a year after diagnosis. I'm so sad for her family as she was such a good person. I will miss her the rest of my life but I know there's another angel in heaven..💔👼🙏
❤🩹 sorry to hear this for you and your friend. Hope you're doing ok.
@@daraboyd thank you so much. Im doing ok. I will cry forever whenever i think of her. And how i miss her. But i know my suffering is nothing compared to her family. God bless ❤️
So sorry my love,be strong, strange that they both got same, my husband has gliomlastoma, he is still here I am sad, broken , angry .....sending love❤❤❤
Blessings to you both. My sister fought Glioblastoma for two years after surgery. It was difficult for the entire family. Continue the fight.
GORGEOUS couple!!! May God bless both of you always ❤️🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽
I lost my friend to this. Awful disease to go through.
This story made me cry! I’m fighting an aggressive breast cancer. You two are so strong and amazing! Praying for you both! 🙏
There’s always hope! Keep fighting! Thank you so much 😊
i lost my husbad to GBM... it started with a headache that wouldnt go away and i called the ambulance after he vommited in the bed ( and he never ever would have done this ever) diagnosis was march 2014( size of a golfball and bleeding arround )- he died first of dec 2015 at home after 2 brain surgeries and of course full go on chemo ( Temozolomide and later on Haloperidol aso ) and radio ... he was so brave and positiv - our boys where 9 and 12 at that point - and he wanted to see them growing up so hard... now my boys are 20 and 17 and i think i got them through that journey good enough to detouch if needed but responsible when important... im so proud of all of them - my late husband and my boys ... i was a widow aged 36... i have seen a doc wich has a new therory- he basically bombards the brain - somehow can calculate where the tumor will travel and targets that area bevor it gets there to infact not making it possible for gbm to place itself there... ( as it only accurs in the brain and magically regrows ... mostly in a 3 cm range only in the brain
Imagine calling an ambulance because someone vomited
And your husband will still die, glioblastoma is incurable and death is close
@bottle3124 Um you make no sense. He obviously needed the ambulance given the diagnosis. Don't know why sickos like you relish other people's misery.
@@bottle3124 you are nasty
@@bottle3124 she was absolutely right, she knew her husband and got him help the best she could. sorry no one loves u like tht.
Praying for you and your family ❤🙏.
Please stay strong. Stories like yours put life into perspective and reveal what is truly important. You are an inspiration. I have you Josiah and your family in my prayers!
He is the healer always praise our God! Through him we shall overcome this cancer! Blessings to you both!
God will bless you both.
Nice one Josiah. You have done amazing. So happy your journey is an inspiration to others. I am going through this now with my brother. It has shattered my expectations of life. Hope I can find the strength.
You are a here. Don't give up just keep going, keep doing good work.
God Bless you , I am Keeping you in Prayer .
Same here since I’ve been diagnosed I was never emotional and rarely cried but since glioblastoma it’s made me very emotional and yes it changes your attitude and how your treat others around you not sure why but it seems common with this type of cancer. I’m still fighting going on a year since diagnosis currently on optune and avastin treatment so far still blessed to be here
Hi! How are you now and what were the first symptoms you developed?
Please stay strong. You're in my prayers.
It a very beautiful thing to see myself healthy again after using remedy from Dr Ake on TH-cam, I finally got cured of my
Glioblastoma with his herbs med and I can tell how great my health has turned out so far.
Thank you 🙏 ❤️🫣💕
@alexandertolmatsTkiy1 Troll
Sending love❤my husband has globlastoma 😢stay strong
What a beautiful couple! You have the perfect approach to dealing with GBM. I’ve lost 3 siblings to this. My sister used Optune and had an amazing quality of life compared to my 2 brothers who weren’t able to use it. Blessings to you.
I thank you for this 😄. I have cancer in my brain stage 2. Now I'm stage 3 in February. I am not going to get until I get glioblastoma stage 4.
I thank my church for that 🙂, I was an atheist until I was 29 years old, now I'm saved by Jesus Christ.
You, like I, I wasnt able to think straight. I was just like the hospital, I smiled for my wife (I couldn't talk). But I didn't know I couldn't talk at all. She cried like no other! 😆
I have the novacure, optune device they gave me as well too.
Thank you for sharing this with me, (and others too) it means alot. 😇
@@pramsyt1987 yes it is... I talked to my doctors, they says it is. I have 3 doctors, I have one that says it the radioncologist I just got done with radiation Dr Manguson. I have a doctor I'm taking chemo now Dr Smiley. I have the Dr He the one that operated on me. It's all the same thing.
😉 I have the same thing. It doesn't form. I have Optune device on my head now. 😆
Anyway it is the same...
hello is it ok to know your symptoms thank u
1 Cor. 15: 3 and 4- Believe in the death burial and resurrection for salvation. The Holy Spirit will identify you in/with Jesus and you become part of his body for eternity.
It a very beautiful thing to see myself healthy again after using remedy from Dr Ake on TH-cam, I finally got cured of my glioblastoma with his herbs med and I can tell how great my health has turned out so far.
Thank you 🙏 ❤️🫣💕
New treatments are coming your way. Optune is extraordinary. Please believe that your wife and family are so happy to have you❤️
Dear Josiah, i don't know of you're still here, but I wanted to say something. Don't ever think that you're a burden to your caretaker, i.e. wife. She loves you, and its an honor to her to rake care of you. My son had leukemia when he was 19, and i would have fought anyone who stood in the way of me taking care of him. Love wants to serve and care for. You are blessed, and so is your wife.
Josiah is still alive! He is 4 years post diagnosis and doing well. Absolutely, he is never a burden ❤ I am very sorry about your son.
Wow that's amazing! The good lord still has work for him to be done❤️ God bless you both☝️🙏
I dont really think Its that "you're stronger than you think you are" but more that when these things happens there is little choice other than having to deal with it. . .
ABSOLUTELY - thank you for your wise words!!!
Exactly.
@@LoriJMarshall and thank you for your kindness x
Hope you are both doing well.
Optune is going to be an historic invention that will saves lives ❤️❤️❤️
God bless you, Josiah and Lauren
His Love is holding you in the palm of his hand
God bless you Josiah and your beautiful wife.. May Jesus give you courage and strength.
Baby doll 💕 so precious
I lost my cousin to Glioblastoma mf last march, she was 33 years old xx Miss her so much, and think of her all the time xx R. I. P Charlene Susan Searle xx Always in our Hearts ♥️ xx
She was so brave, and will always be the bravest woman I will ever know xx
Keep fighting!
My sister and brother died, within 2 years of each other, from glioblastoma. A neurologist told me not to worry about having glioblastoma because it doesn't run in families.
Hi, Sandra! I'm sorry to hear that.
What were the first symptoms they developed and what were their ages when they were diagnosed?
Please stay healthy and strong.
Sandra I'm so sorry for the heartbreaking loss of your siblings 💔
I lost my brother 2 weeks ago to glioblastoma , he survived for 5years . I have a similar video of his tory and some tricks he used to survive. If anyone needs some advice i could give some. Or the poster should reachout for me to share the video
Hi Jean! Could you share the video? How can I find it? Is it in TH-cam?
Your brother was a long survivor, 5 years is a long time for GBM! I am sure he was a strong will person. God bless him and your family! 🙏🙏🙏
He was just lucky, the tricks are treatment.
Our 34 year old son lasted 5 years. He went totally organic, drank fresh juices as well as aromatherapy. He had his life ahead of him. 2 beautiful children, was an electrical engineer...God, we miss him so much. He was diagnosed in 2014 and passed in 2019.😢
Love is saving you ❤❤❤❤❤
BOTH my parents died from GBM, 25 years apart. It's gut wrenching and so scary. Especially not knowing who else in my family will get GBM in the future. Josiah, I'm so happy you're a survivor!
My heart goes out to you!
Wow. What are the chances..
Wow as rare as this is they both endured this horrific Illness. God bless your sweet heart. My grandmother and her brother both died from it just a couple years apart. It’s so rare to have more than one in family to get it. We lived near this plant that sat right near water resource and we always wondered if this is what caused it bc one other person in that area was Dx with it. All have passed after 6pm this of being Dx. My heart breaks for you.
@@savinggrace1110 Thank you so much. GBM is one scary cancer. I pray every day it skips over me and my family.
Gbm isn’t familial, they’re just very unlucky
No matter how skilled that dr may be, he comes across as quite "robotic"..Empathy and emotions are just as important when treating a patient.
Yes, empathy is so important for a doctor to have! He was not Josiah's specific doctor. He was just a doctor they got to speak on GBM for the story.
Just diagnosed…..my husband….devastating
It a very beautiful thing to see myself healthy again after using remedy from Dr Ake on TH-cam, I finally got cured of my
Glioblastoma with his herbs med and I can tell how great my health has turned out so far.
Thank you 🙏 ❤️🫣
Don't give up.
My husban diagnosed 10 mo ago,still here, not eazy ❤❤
@@amiratosic9701 he died in December 8 months
@@lafalto 😢😢so sorry, sending love ❤️
🙏🙏🙏
Any updates on him?
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what about the pesticides and other chemicals in agriculture? are they the cause of various cancers?
It’s probably how I’ll die. My grandfather died from GBM.
From my aunt’s experience with GBM, she lived only 16 months after diagnosis. I sincerely believe all GBM patients should go on hospice, it would improve their QoL. I know from experience that after my aunt went on it she was able to spend meaningful moments that helped her accept her impeding death.
I want to know what causes it. I had a grade 1 brain tumor meningioma removed on my right side brain and 6 months later on my left side brain I’m having all sorts of pain and pressure that I’ve never had before on that side but every time I get a MRI the doctor say it’s clear., which was mentioned in this video. I hope they find a cure soon since meningiomas can reoccur. I’m just carrying on with mostly raw foods and OMAD fasting but my symptoms seems to me getting worse everyday. I’m also taking supplements that are associated with the SCOT protocol. I’m having some good days but increasingly more bad days. I need a miracle.
Bon courage à vous
@@SALMANMALIK-jv9tw I still don’t know what’s causing my new headaches. Could be cluster headache from nerve damage after he surgery which will hopefully take time to repair. Im basically taking a list of supplements mentioned on Dr Berg TH-cam channel. Alpha Lipoic Acid, CO-Q10, ginger, garlic, Omega 3, melatonin, turmeric, black teas, green tea and extract. He have the full list on his channel along with his videos. Just search Berg and SCOT protocol.
@@SALMANMALIK-jv9tw th-cam.com/video/jSgpUYmjtdc/w-d-xo.html
Then get another test and not only mris
It a very beautiful thing to see myself healthy again after using remedy from Dr Ake on TH-cam, I finally got cured of my glioblastoma his herbs med and I can tell how great my health has turned out so far.
Thank you 🙏 ❤️🫣💕
Please someone guide me.
My husband also suffering Glioblastoma . Chemotherapy is going on . please suggest how can he will survive... what will be the best treatment please
It a very beautiful thing to see myself healthy again after using remedy from Dr Ake on TH-cam, I finally got cured of my glioblastoma with his herbs med and I can tell how great my health has turned out so far.
Thank you 🙏 ❤️🫣💕
Glioblastom kann man nicht heilen.Sie lügen
I am suffering from same since May 21. As per Doctors I India there is no treatment for same in India, I m poor man cannot afford treatment if any NGO can help me to survive I have two daughters in 5th and 6th they are too small and a boy in 8 STD, can some NGOs help in treatment, I will be thankful to them for rest of my life
Anyone have an update?
He is alive and doing so well! Some hiccups here and there, but God is blessing him and healing him! He is a normal person living day to day :) You would never know!
@@user-rz6hr2kk6i praise the Lord!!!!
Hi wassup
I really great thing to do is go to our great physician the Lord Jesus Christ and get into the word of all the healing scriptures and praise them over each other. You can also rebuke the spirit of cancer /infirmity /sickness /illness ;in Jesus name you can cast it out with the authority that Jesus gives you and tell it to go to the abyss and never return in the mighty matchless name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Hahaha 😂
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Dr. Burzynski. Find him.
Do you know anyone who has gone to burzynski?
@@JG-sn4sg Yes, and she was cured when all doctors besides gave her a death sentence. This was, however, over a decade ago.
@@vivalaleta wow! Thanks for sharing ❤️ I’ve been looking into this for my mom, so I like hearing about experiences others have had.
He is a terrible human being. His studies are full of errors and misinformation. He’s been sued many times. He’s dangerous.
@@hoosfan29 Sued by whom though?
Many prayers go out to you, have faith in God.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
God Bless you so much n your family. I know how you feel, God will continue to heal you he is the great physician on high when our doctors don't have the ability to help. I pray you continue to be free from the disease. 🫂🙏🫂🙏
God’s blessings on you both throughout this journey ❤️