Simone Giertz is a US immigrant, inventor and video blogger.
She has a YouTube fan base of around 1.5 million, who watch her put her 'bad robots' through their paces, until they invariably go horribly wrong and make a terrible mess before they expire or cease to function.
She was diagnosed with a non-cancerous brain tumour in April 2018 and underwent surgery to have most of it removed. But waste not want not is the madcap inventors motto, so she took the tumour (now named Brian) home in a jar. Sadly this wasn't the end of her treatment, as in January this year, she was told that a small piece of Brian, left in her brain as it had been too dangerous to remove, had started growing again, and she is now undergoing radiotherapy.
So she then thought long and hard about where to send the part of the little bugger they had got out, and then, on the 4th of February this year she delighted her followers with a picture ..... "You know what this is? You see that iceberg in the back? That's Antarctica. And that pink thing on the left? That is my brain tumour." ... a friend had taken it there.
She had planned to go to the Antarctic, but couldn't go due the the treatment but thought "if I can't go myself then it's only fair if the thing that's preventing me from being there gets to go. With this whole ordeal, having to find funny and quirky little upsides to it has helped a lot."
"I don't have to be brain-tumour-girl," she said. "I can be the girl who sent her brain tumour to Antarctica."
So Bravo Simone! I know exactly how you feel and felt ..... I really should have asked for Ollie the Oesophageal Cancer myself but I just didn't think that way ... If I had, I would have then cooked the little sod, then let the gulls eat it!
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| Simone Giertz - Vlogger ... |
She has a YouTube fan base of around 1.5 million, who watch her put her 'bad robots' through their paces, until they invariably go horribly wrong and make a terrible mess before they expire or cease to function.
She was diagnosed with a non-cancerous brain tumour in April 2018 and underwent surgery to have most of it removed. But waste not want not is the madcap inventors motto, so she took the tumour (now named Brian) home in a jar. Sadly this wasn't the end of her treatment, as in January this year, she was told that a small piece of Brian, left in her brain as it had been too dangerous to remove, had started growing again, and she is now undergoing radiotherapy.
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| Brian The Tumours Antarctic Trip - One Way Ticket |
So she then thought long and hard about where to send the part of the little bugger they had got out, and then, on the 4th of February this year she delighted her followers with a picture ..... "You know what this is? You see that iceberg in the back? That's Antarctica. And that pink thing on the left? That is my brain tumour." ... a friend had taken it there.
She had planned to go to the Antarctic, but couldn't go due the the treatment but thought "if I can't go myself then it's only fair if the thing that's preventing me from being there gets to go. With this whole ordeal, having to find funny and quirky little upsides to it has helped a lot."
"I don't have to be brain-tumour-girl," she said. "I can be the girl who sent her brain tumour to Antarctica."
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| "Bye Bye Ollie - Enjoy The Trip" |
So Bravo Simone! I know exactly how you feel and felt ..... I really should have asked for Ollie the Oesophageal Cancer myself but I just didn't think that way ... If I had, I would have then cooked the little sod, then let the gulls eat it!
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