Fighting and surviving GBM Cancer Thomas Scrivens

Last Saturday night was a party of a lifetime for me. Words cannot describe how blessed I am to have have wonderful family and friends attend the event and the businesses and people who I've never met come down and celebrate my life and help raise money and awareness of my fight against GBM. It still shows that there are some amazing people in this world, who are willing to give rather than recieve. I think this life has so many good people and you know what? Good things happen to good people too! My wonderful sister Sarah, brother in law Michael and my other amazing sister Amanda organised an Fundraiser to help support myself and my family to raise money to help with expensive medical treatment and help raise money to help me through this Clinical Trail I am on. I love you guys so much, to Heaven and Earth and back! This amazing night was held at the Hidden Valley Golf & Country Club with around 250 people attending with lots of auction pri...

''Do you ever wonder if we make the moments in our lives or the moments in our lives make us? Ever wonder how long it takes to change your life? What measure of time is enough to be life-altering? Is it four years, like high school? One year? An eight-week walking tour? Can your life change in a month, or a week, or a single day? We're always in a hurry to grow up, to go places, to get ahead…but when you're young, one hour can change everything… '' Over easter this year, very much came to a halt for me. Both the chemotherapy and radiotherapy all came up at once and felt ever so sick over the easter break, but still manage to find strength in my heart to see my sister celebrate her birthday, it was just so awesome to do something so 'normal' and very special at the same time. I'm coming to an home run at the moment with my first cycle of treatment and then I can't wait for my much needed break for 2 weeks, depending on a stable MRI result. I jus...

It's been a while since I've checked in and made another post. Feels good to have some time now to catch up on some things after some weeks of chemo and radio. Slowly catching up to me now. Feeling really sick in the morning with the toxic chemo drugs and face burns from the radiant heat from radiation. But now I'm finally halfway through week 5 and getting closer to my MRI scan to check up on progress next month. My next MRI will determinate alot of things. I am constantly praying that if I have any regrowth of any tumor, I will go back to square one. If there isn't a tumor, Praise God and I will go straight into a clinical trail. Lots of prayers and positive energy I ask please. If everything goes according to plan, and during the clinical trail no more radiothearpy, however my chemothearpy will be increased with a higher double dosage. Everything is so fast paced with routines. Chemothearpy, Radio, Doctors Appointments, etc etc really ties you're time and day u...

Hi everyone! I would like to take this oppurtinity to thank my family, friends and my oncology team for getting this far into week 4 of treatment, and the amazing support behind everything. Such as the fundraiser event which is happening in April and all the generous, kind, beautiful people who have donated money for my treatment and oppurtinity for a clinical trail. Words can't express the word thank-you enough, you have all touched my heart deeply in ways I can't express. To my wonderful family in the UK for organizing a fundraiser night and the buggy run with the mummies you are all amazing! You know who you are. I thank-you. To all my family and friends on Facebook thanks for following me and supporting me! Week 4 of chemotherapy and radiotherapy and the hair is gone! Bits of hair left but will slowly fall out. Feeling more nauseated in the mornings and feeling really hot at nigh tim...

14th March 2013 It's like in that movie '50/50' a young man who is diagnosed with cancer and is asked 'Are you feeling numb'? Meeting and speaking to various people around the world who have/had cancer have this numb feeling and to be honest it sucks. Doing the odd 'normal' thing like making a cup of tea or sitting outside watching the view or going for a car ride and thinking at the same time 'I have cancer?' I can kinda understand what the 'numb' feeling is. Don't know if you're going to die anyday or with my situation go mental in the head, unxpecting the unexpected really. You have awesome days like today I got to go with my awesome amazing sister to radiothearpy and go out for lunch and days when you want to vent out as much as you can, but hey isn't it healthy? Each day is milestone and I'm doing okay. My face is starting to really hurt with the radiation and my hair is slowly coming out. If it wasn't for my fami...

After being told about my cancer it was time to put words into action. The plan is that I have a 9month treatment involving both radiotherapy and chemotherapy. These two type of methods work best with GBM patients. A long road ahead but never hopeless as I thought. The survival depends on my effort and two way street relationship with the medical team and my emotional mind and spiritual faith. I do radiotherapy at the Epping Medical Specialist Centre here in Victoria. A wonderful dedicated team of professionals who are passionate about saving lives. It really makes all the difference. I do radiotherapy in the afternoons after chemotherapy so by after lunch time I am really exhausted and feeling physically and emotionally drained. Especially they are 'laser' pointing towards my head. But over the last 2 weeks into the progress my body is handling really good it's just when week 3,4,5 I will start to...

Everyone has those moments in life when you don't forget things. You're 18th birthday, first car or first time you fallen in love. Those sheer moments in life also we experience are moments of pain or devastation. January 26th was definitely not a Saturday morning sleep in as Mum and Dad came to the hospital to see me and have the meeting with the surgeon to discuss the pathology of the Tumor and to see if it was non-cancerous or cancerous. Realistically the last few days I have been emotionally preferring for both circumstances. As it was early morning finished breakfast and was speaking to Mum and Dad about everything. "Whatever it is we will get through it together".  The neurosurgeon arrived and we started speaking. The conversation started positively saying it was a successful surgery with 100% of the Tumor removed (such a blessing) and no complications. However the Tumor has left cancer cells and under the microscope the cells are cancer. The cells are known a...