Your Involvement Made Us a Top Team Last Year! Will You Help Us Reach Our Goal Once Again?

Posted on July 12, 2020 by Wendy Santana

We invite you to join us in support of nearly 700,000 Americans currently living with a brain tumor. Team 2nd Chance 2 Live is participating in the BT5K Your Way Los Angeles benefiting the brain tumor community through research grants and patient/caregiver guidance provided by the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA). Last year our team generated close to $2,500 in vital funding and we…

Meet Wendy Santana: An Advocate for Brain Tumor Awareness

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Wendy Santana

Published on December 15, 2019: In 2014, Wendy Santana, Long Beach, was 47 and a professional fundraiser for non-profits serving economically disadvantaged populations in Los Angeles … a self-admitted workaholic. While she hadn’t felt well for some time, she characteristically powered through, not even taking a sick day that year. “I really had to push myself and was very out…

“There’s Something Going On In The Kitchen”

Posted on June 25, 2020 by Wendy Santana

I have a confession to make. Remember the post, Funny Farm Girl? Well, Kelly Fosso Rodenberg and I have been meeting regularly from our kitchen’s over coffee (virtually of course). Full disclosure…we’ve decided to take our relationship to the next level and have officially declared ourselves, Brain Tumor Besties (BTB). As a quick refresher Kelly is a farm girl, I…

What Will Your Legacy Be?

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Wendy Santana

An Interview with: Danny Monson about the KM (Kindness Matters) Legacy Foundation. This month Katie Monson would have celebrated her 22nd birthday. She also would have been graduating from UCLA (where she was studying political science). However, in May of 2017, just when Katie was finishing up her freshman year at UCLA she received the terminal diagnosis of Glioblastoma Multiforme…

Traumatic Brain Injury and Tourette Syndrome

Posted on June 12, 2020 by Wendy Santana

An Interview with: Janine Tejeda, President and Founder of ScholasTIC Tourette’s Supporters, Inc. “Learning to forgive myself, respect myself, and love myself has been my brilliant creative act. I wish this for all people.” – Larry Barber, An Unlikely Strength An Unlikely Strength can be found in the suggested reading section of this blog because there are vast similarities between the…