Heart of The Brain Presents $400,000 Donation to Brain Tumor Center

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Wendy Santana

Note: this is a re-post is from today’s Heart of the Brain newsletter. Every Dollar is One Step Closer to a Cure! Interim Executive Director of Heart of the Brain, Colette Weintraub (right), presents a $400,000 donation to Dr. Linda Liau and Dr. Tim Cloughesy, co-directors of the UCLA Brain Tumor Center. Thank you for your donations and continued support…

Thanks for making us a top team!

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Wendy Santana

Greetings. I hope this blog post finds you safe and well. I just wanted to take a moment to express how deeply touched I am by the generous support our team received last weekend (be it in-person, in-spirit, as a team member, through a donation, or otherwise). You helped make the Los Angeles BT5K run & walk organized by the…

Help Us Reach Our Goal of 25 Team Members

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Wendy Santana

Hello again. I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted here. There’s been a lot going on and it was a very busy summer. First, my son graduated from middle school and three days later he started playing water polo for his high school. The entire summer was a blur and now that he’s pretty much settled into high…

An Indelible Mark

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Wendy Santana

“Make it edgy,” I said to the tattoo artist. “There isn’t anything pretty about brain cancer.” It was 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, 2016. Although it had been a warm and sunny California day, I felt gloomy. I wanted the tattoo to personify my state of mind at the time: edgy and colorless. I was still struggling to…

Brain Cancer May Have Taken Me Out Of The Game, But It Also Gave Me My Life.

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Wendy Santana

Sometimes a person needs to be taken out of the game in order to embrace what really matters. At least that was the case for me. As a workaholic, I was out of touch with my body and my family. Although brain cancer took away my job and career (at least for the time being), I eventually came to realize…