Ep 29 | June 17, 2026 | 31 mins

Brenda shares her extraordinary journey through two rare brain tumor diagnoses, her active lifestyle before and after, and her inspiring journey of relearning and resilience. Discover insights on medical challenges, recovery, mental shifts, and the power of community support.

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Transcript
Bri (00:06)
I'm Bri Salsman, a brain tumor survivor and identity integration coach, and you're listening to Rewired Minds, a podcast that shares brain tumor stories that change us. Sometimes guests use medical terminology, so I've partnered with Northwestern Medicine Malnati Brain Tumor Institute to provide definitions of common terms. You can find the full list in the show notes. Most importantly, take care of yourself as you listen and process.

Bri (00:29)
Today's guest is Brenda. At 39 years old, Brenda was diagnosed with an oligodendroglioma, and then four years later, her team discovered a vestibular schwannoma. Everything in her life changed as soon as she heard the words, you have a brain tumor. She's since been on a journey to relearn me as she describes it and make friends with her diagnosis. Thanks for joining me, Brenda.

Brenda Sowers (00:52)
Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it.

Bri (00:55)
Yeah, absolutely. Wow. So two brain tumor diagnoses in the span of four years. That is a lot.

Brenda Sowers (01:03)
Yeah, and apparently those two particular different brain tumors are extremely rare, so I'm unique according to my doctors.

Bri (01:11)
Many people want to be unique, but maybe not so much in this way, huh?

Brenda Sowers (01:18)
Yeah, no, I don't want to be unique anymore in medical. Like, I would rather just be unique in like, you know, personality or life or, you know, something like that.

Bri (01:28)
Yes, yes. Speaking of having a unique life, what did your life look like before all of this?

Brenda Sowers (01:34)
I was very athletic. I did long distance running, like trail running. I was averaging 20 miles per run. I ended up becoming an endurance climber. Like rock climbing. Yeah, I've always been extremely active.

Bri (01:49)
How did you get into running and rock climbing?

Brenda Sowers (01:52)
Running, since second grade I've been in track and field. So basically it's my entire life. I've been a runner. I was also on the swim team, so running and swimming were like my sports growing up.

And then a friend of mine, she got me into rock climbing. We rock climbed twice a week, if not more for four or five hours.

Bri (02:13)
I have a sneaking suspicion then you're probably in a pretty active area that has lots of different geography that gives you the space to be able to do these things.

Brenda Sowers (02:24)
Yeah, I basically grew up in Tucson and now I'm living in northern Arizona in a little town called Prescott and it's amazing. It's a little mountain town.

Tucson is like rock climbers' haven because there's Mount Lemmon and Mount Lemmon has, I think now over 3,000 climbing routes

Bri (02:42)
Oh wow.

Brenda Sowers (02:43)
Just on Mount Lemmon alone. Yeah.

Bri (02:44)
That's amazing. I didn't even know that was possible.

Brenda Sowers (02:46)
Yeah, I didn't either.

Bri (02:49)
And how many of those have you done?

Brenda Sowers (02:51)
God, I've lost count. I have my favorite areas and so probably at least 50 but mostly I would climb in the gym. I have the privilege of not working because my husband makes enough money to manage the household. So I would just go around my friend Gabby's schedule.

Bri (03:12)
And you mentioned your husband, so you're married. Do you have a family as well?

Brenda Sowers (03:14)
No kids, just dogs.

Bri (03:18)
Hey, that's a family. A family in my book, anyway.

Brenda Sowers (03:20)
Yeah, yeah. So I had two dogs. They unfortunately passed three months apart from each other. in 2019 and 2020.

Bri (03:29)
Oh I'm so sorry.

Brenda Sower (03:30)
So was like right after I got diagnosed.

Bri (03:31)
As we're kind of moving into that, you had mentioned that symptoms started showing up well before any testing was done. What were those symptoms that you were noticing?

Brenda Sowers (03:42)
I was brushing them off, you know, like most athletes do. I slowly started seeing that when I got fatigued, my right leg would just become dead. And, you know, my husband, he was not a runner. He's like, of course you have a dead leg. You just ran 20 miles. I would have a dead leg too.

Then it started happening while rock climbing. I would literally be rock climbing and my right leg wouldn't do what my brain told it to do. So I started grabbing it with my hand and putting it in the hold position, the foot position. And I just thought that was weird, but I was like, well, whatever, I probably just have a pinched nerve in my back or something. I just kind of did stretches and did the whole pinched nerve protocol thing.

Then the biggie happened February 2019. We were backpacking in Havasupai. And on the way out, my right leg completely just stopped working and I was like halfway to the top. So I still had about seven-ish miles to go.

I looked at my friend Gabby and I was like, I don't know what's going on. But if you want to just, go ahead, go ahead. I'll just figure it out. And she's like, I'm not leaving you. It took a long time, but I managed to drag my right leg up to the top and my husband, he was already there. He had the car ready, and he just took one look at me and he knew something was.

From February ‘19, I just started having these increased symptoms where some days my right leg worked great, and some days ended up having to walk with a cane because my right leg just kept going out from underneath me.

Bri (05:24)
And so how are you making sense of all of this? Like what, are you thinking that this is?

Brenda Sowers (05:29)
So, immediately I'm like, something must be going on with my lower back. Maybe sciatica symptoms, you know, something like that. I immediately went to a lower back issue, because, running, rock climbing, that's a lot of strain on your lower back.

But my husband was like, no, no, no, no, no. So we ended up going to the first neurosurgeon. He was a spine surgeon. It was weird because he didn't even look at my x-rays or anything. I had an MRI on my low back. And before they even looked at it, everybody was like, you're going to have surgery.

And we were both like, what the heck? How do you know that? And then he was just, you know, well here's this, here's that. I can do this. I can shave this off a little bit. And I'm like, the imaging in my back does not look that bad.

Bri (06:18)
Do you have a background in this? Like what gave you that or is that kind of more intuition on your end?

Brenda Sowers (06:24)
I was my dad's caretaker for years. So I kind of understood imaging already at that point, because he had already been in and out of the hospital a bunch of times with strokes and heart attacks and that kind of stuff. And he has very, very severe arthritis in his spine. So it's like I know what bad back looks like in a image.

So fortunately my insurance company denied the surgery because they're like it's not necessary. This is a medically unnecessary surgery. That kind of forced us to keep looking.

Let's see, that was the first neurosurgeon. And then the second neurosurgeon basically told me, it's all in your head, you're hysterical, you need to go see a pain management doctor and you need to get on antidepressants.

Bri (07:10)
That's a big shift from the first response that you got.

Brenda Sowers (07:13)
Yeah. Then I saw the third surgeon who became my actual neurosurgeon and it was funny cause he walked in and my husband noticed this because he's a mountain biker and cyclist. He had cycling shoes on. And so immediately my husband's like, I just knew I was going to like him.

This was probably September at this point of 2019. By this point my right rib cage was numb. I had like numbness in different parts of my leg. Part of my face was numb. So the whole right side, everything was the right side.

The neurosurgeon looked at me, like, listened to me actually, and was like, “I don't know, but I'm going to find out.”

So he literally ordered an MRI from brain to tailbone. He kind of brought up maybe it's MS or autoimmune or something, because I was right at that age where it could have been. So I said, well, that makes sense. I'll set up an appointment with my primary care doctor to get like an autoimmune panel.

I had my MRI the day before I saw my primary care doctor. And I was like not expecting to have results or anything.

So my husband was like, I need to go on a trip, you okay going to the primary care doctor on your own? And I said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we're just gonna do an autoimmune panel, we're just gonna discuss, no big deal.

So I had my MRI at six o'clock the night before and I had my appointment with my primary care doctor at eight o'clock the following morning.

He already had all my results from the MRI. I didn't know that. It was just me and him. And my husband was on a plane to Colorado. And he's like, well, I got your MRI results. Do you want the good news or the bad news?

The good news first?

He goes, you have the spine of a 20 year old.

Well, that's unexpected because the first neurosurgeon wanted to do spine surgery. And then he like scooches his chair next to me and he just gets this look on his face and he goes, but the bad news is we see something on the brain imaging. They're calling it a neoplasm, which is new growth apparently.

And I said, well, what does that mean? And he goes, well, that means you have a brain tumor. And I literally stopped breathing. And I just was like sitting there and I'm going, what? And then he says, oh, you know, don't worry. It's not enhancing. It's not cancerous. If I was a betting man and I was in Vegas, I would bet all my money that it's not cancerous. Didn't even respond. I was in so much shock.

And then he goes, okay, well, you gotta wait out in the waiting room to get your blood work. And I'm just sitting there waiting for a text from my husband to say he landed so I could call him.

Bri (10:01)
What's going through your mind?

Brenda Sowers (10:04)
I was just completely blank, I had no idea what to think about this. I was just not breathing, really. And then all of sudden the tears just started flowing down my face. I don't know who this older gentleman was, but he like got up from his chair, sat next to me and just put his hand on my hand. Didn't say anything, didn't say a word. Just put his hand on my hand and just gave me this like, I got you, look.

As soon as I saw landed, I called my husband. I just started bawling at that point. And the guy was still holding my hand. I was just like, I just got told I have a brain tumor. He goes, I'm taking the next flight back. I literally told him, no, I need time to process on my own. Like I need to be by myself.

Bri (10:53)
How did you know right away that that's what you needed?

Brenda Sowers (10:56)
I don't know, it was just one of those gut reactions of as soon as I heard him say he was coming straight home, I was like, no.

So I got in my car, drove straight to the Arizona trailhead that was next to our house, and just went on the trail and just walked.

Bri (11:14)
What came out on that walk?

Brenda Sowers (11:15)
I was just bawling. I was literally just like bawling my eyes out. And then I went home and the dogs immediately knew something was wrong. I just sat with my dogs in silence for a day and a half until my husband got home.

Bri (11:31)
What came out of that processing time?

Brenda Sowers (11:33)
Basically, I was like, okay, here's what I know. I know I have a growth in my brain, which they're calling a tumor or a lesion. So I don't know which one it is. Is it a lesion? Is it a tumor? I still didn't have the blood work back yet to know if this was a MS lesion or a Parkinson's lesion or an actual brain tumor because it wasn't like the distinct brain tumors that you see a lot on social media where it's like this mass that is completely enhanced. It was just this shadow looking kind of fat blob. I mean it literally looked like a fat seahorse. The only thing I thought of was I'm healthy and I can handle this. It was like I went straight into survival mode.

Bri (12:15)
At some point your husband does return. What does that conversation look like when he gets home and how do you decide on next steps?

Brenda Sowers (12:21)
Well, we didn't talk at all. He just, he just held me and we just hugged for long time. He’s an engineer, so he immediately went into analytical root cause, just research, research, research. So he came up with a boatload of questions for the surgeon when we saw him the end of that week. I just kind of let him take the reins because you came up with all kinds of awesome questions.

We talked to the neurosurgeon. He says, well, because this is the first MRI, I really want to get a series of two or three. So then, my next MRI, a couple months later and then I was going into the appointment and cause my husband, he's doing all this research, an article came up that said, doing a watch and wait on these kind of tumor is not the right protocol.

He printed it out. we were prepared. I think it was July of 2020 and the doctor comes in and he goes, so there's this new study that came out that basically is like you need to do the surgery and so I was like oh alright so you are on top of research. This is awesome.

Bri (13:36)
I imagine that gave you a boost of confidence in him as your neurosurgeon as well.

Brenda Sowers (13:39)
For sure, yea! He at the time was the head of the neurosurgery department. So it was like that and then just the fact that he came in already knowing the study, I was like, yeah, he's the one.

So we ended up scheduling it for September of 2020. By the time it happened, it still was on lockdown and all this other stuff. So I had to go into the hospital alone. My husband had to drop me off at the front door and I had to walk in the hospital by myself and do the whole thing by myself.

Bri (14:14)
I can't even imagine Brenda.

Brenda Sowers (14:15)
It was scary. It was super scary. I've had many surgeries. This was not my first rodeo in the surgery world, but I never had a surgery that my husband didn't go to. He was like, oh I'll just go home and watch TV. And he says, I couldn't.

If I remember correctly, he said my surgery was like eight and a half hours, nine hours long. For me it was, three seconds, but for him, he said, I just literally just sat there and wasn't breathing. The whole time. He's like, I had to remind myself to breathe.

But thankfully the nurses were really good. They called him every hour or every two hours to give him updates. So they were really on it. I was literally done with surgery and home in 36 hours.

Bri (15:04)
And so what did recovery look like?

Brenda Sowers (15:06)
When I started waking up from surgery, I couldn't feel or move my right leg. And then all of the sudden, 12 hours later, I'm asleep and my right leg kicks and it wakes me up. And I'm like, interesting. So I call the nurse and I said, I can feel my right leg. I can feel my right side. I want to try to get up and walk.

And the nurse was like, are you sure? And I was like, yes, I want to try to get up and walk. So they brought the PT person in and I got up, walked around. The only thing I had that I didn't have prior to the surgery was aphasia. So coming out of surgery, I was talking extremely slow.

Bri (15:47)
Did you have any ongoing therapy of any kind?

Brenda Sowers (15:51)
They told me they were going to recommend speech therapy but then because of the pandemic there was no speech therapists available until I think the appointment was like February of the following year.

My husband actually came up with Duolingo. Try Duolingo Spanish and just see and have my brain get rewired. And it happened. It worked. I was doing Duolingo every day and I barely know Spanish these days, but it helped me with my English. So that was cool. But otherwise I was hiking within maybe four days post-surgery I was going on hikes.

Bri (16:28)
A lot of people talk about, there is no return to normal. It's a new normal. And so I'm kind of curious how that lands with you because it kind of sounds like maybe you did go back to the way life was if you were hiking so soon.

Brenda Sowers (16:43)
I tried to go back to my old normal and I think I pushed too hard. My post-surgery life looked very different than my pre-surgery life. Pretty much I lost every single one of my friends. They all just bailed. So I stopped rock climbing. I stopped running with anybody. The only person that was in my life was my immediate family and my husband. That was it. I lost everybody else.

Bri (17:11)
Of course, they're not here as part of the conversation to be able to share. And I want to be mindful of that. But from your perspective, what do you think prompted such drastic shifts in your relationships?

Brenda Sowers (17:24)
Well one, I was the youngest of the group and two, I was perceivably like the physically strongest of the group. So I just think it's fear.

Bri (17:33)
Fear of what?

Brenda Sowers (17:34)
Their fear, not my fear. I think they were just afraid of the reality that this could happen to them too. So they just didn't want to pay any attention to that. So they just cut me out completely.

Bri (17:48)
Brenda, I'm very sorry.

Brenda Sowers (17:49)
Yeah, it took me a while to get over it, but I'm good now.

Bri (17:53)
What are your relationships look like today? Your friendships in particular?

Brenda Sowers (17:56)
Mostly it's the Brain Tumor Companion group. So when I was in recovery, Angel actually reached out to me through Facebook Messenger and said, hey, I noticed you're doing a lot of questions on Facebook. And I just wanted to let you know that I'm trying to start a support group, if you would be interested, please, reach out to me. Well, this was at the time when I had the aphasia. So it took me a long time, but I finally was able to respond back to her and I said, I would love to. I just can't talk very well.

It was so beautiful because she just goes, OK, then don't talk. Just show up. Just listen. And I was like, awesome. And ever since then, I've been going to the groups with the Brain Tumor Companions, and it's been amazing. They have become my friends.

Bri (18:45)
That's wonderful. That's wonderful. And what a great community to be part of as of course, we mentioned at the top that you have another diagnosis coming and maybe didn't even know it. And, you know, kind of had this built-in support system at that point of people who understood and got it. So how did this second diagnosis come about?

Brenda Sowers (19:09)
It was late 2023, I did a 55k endurance run and I kept falling in my training. Maybe I'm just tired. I need to take a break.

So that continued. And then I got my maintenance MRI in January of 2024. They said everything was clear, everything was good, everything was fine. But I kept having these weird dizzy spells and I kept falling and my left ear had intermittent tinnitus or tinnitus or however you say it. Maybe I'm just perimenopausal.

I went to New York to this Lenox Hill Brain Tumor Gala. The last night, I had the worst dizzy spell and I ran to the bathroom and I was like basically dry heaving over the toilet. I think maybe I'm just tired. Because you know, travel and stuff. I don't fly much.

I was like, well, I have my MRI in two weeks. So I'll just see then. Well, two weeks later I got the maintenance MRI and this time it was AI assisted MRI.

Bri (20:16)
Oh interesting.

Brenda Sowers (20:17)
And AI actually caught the tumor. Of course, you'll get your report through your portal before you see the doctor. At least that's how is at the Mayo Clinic.

I got an email, your test results came in. Well I also had a mammogram that same day so I figured, that's just the mammogram test results. I'll just pop it open and see that it's normal. It was the brain MRI. The first line was, know, everything's stable in the surgery site. Then line two, new enhancing tumor. They compared it to January. And I'm like, wait a second. They told me there was nothing in the January MRI.

So I guess what happened was AI caught it, the radiologists looked at the January MRI and it was there, but not like obvious, I guess, because from January to July it had grown by 50%.

So we already knew that we were going to get bad news when we saw the doctor. And he just walks in and he just plops himself down and goes, I have no words. This is unexpected. I have no idea why you got these two tumors. They have no relation to each other.

Bri (21:27)
And is this your neurosurgeon who performed the surgery? This is a different doctor.

Brenda Sowers (21:30)
We ended up moving to the Mayo Clinic and this was the new, the neuro-oncologist that I had been seeing since I was on chemo for the first tumor. He almost was loss of words, you know? He's like, I've never seen this before. I don't know.

Bri (21:48)
And so what becomes the plan of attack for this one, for lack of a better way to put it.

Brenda Sowers (21:53)
Because it's still considered small, quote unquote, you can watch and wait or you could do radiation, but last resort would be surgery. I'm not watching and waiting. I'm not doing radiation. I'm doing surgery. Because of my past history, they told me that my tumor was not cancerous and then it turned into cancer. So I don't believe anybody until it's biopsied. I want it out and biopsied. He goes, okay, I will send you to the neurosurgeon. So I had to have two different neurosurgeons, an ENT and a skull base surgeon. And I went to them, explained to them, I will not have radiation.

All they cared about was my hearing because apparently the first symptom usually is you lose your hearing with this type of tumor. And I had really good hearing. And I said, I don't care about my hearing, I just want this tumor out. So they finally agreed, they set up the surgery and oh my goodness. The second surgery, my recovery was horrendous. I had to relearn how to walk. I still have balance issues at night. My hearing? They preserved it. I mean it's not as good as it used to be. It's diminished, but I'm not completely deaf in the left ear, so that's good.

Bri (23:13)
What was so different about the second surgery that resulted in such significantly different outcomes?

Brenda Sowers (23:20)
The second tumor, the schwannoma, actually is growing on your balance nerve so in order to remove the tumor they have to remove the balance nerve. A lot of people have to relearn how to balance, walk. I was so dizzy. I couldn't even open my eyes for a week. Otherwise, the room would just spin.

The first time they sat me up in the hospital, my eyes just went everywhere. They were like, wow, you have severe nystagmus. Nystagmus is where your eyes just involuntarily move. It took me about six or seven months for it to completely go away. Even though it was a benign tumor, that was the hardest recovery of the two surgeries.

Bri (23:59)
Something you shared with me ahead of our conversation is that you've been on this journey of relearning yourself. And that word relearn has come up a few times even in our conversation. What have you relearned about yourself?

Brenda Sowers (24:15)
I've definitely learned and relearned my strength, both physically and spiritually, mentally, I mean, all around. I definitely have relearned to appreciate the little things, like the ability to be able to see straight, the ability to be able to walk in a straight line without people looking at you like you're drunk. Because that took me about a year to do. Definitely relearning to appreciate life. I think I was taking life for granted. Really.

Bri (24:46)
What do you appreciate most about life today?

Brenda Sowers (24:48)
Just being, you know, just being able to be here and wake up every morning. It's not one thing in life, it's just every little thing. I appreciate the birds more, I appreciate the butterflies more.

We ended up getting another dog and she's been amazing and she was huge part of my recovery, the second surgery.

Bri (25:12)
In what way?

Brenda Sowers (25:13)
It's like she knew, she knew that mommy was broken. And she literally would not leave my side. She would follow me. I had a walker and one of those gait belts. So my husband could walk behind me and she literally would be right at my heel, just walking with me and just making sure I was okay. And then as soon as I would sit down she would sit right next to me and wait for me. Every morning she'd bring me a toy. I had a different toy every day that she'd bring me as company.

Bri (25:45)
That's so sweet.

Brenda Sowers (25:46)
She still sleeps on my head at night. I feel like she's protecting me, you know what mean? She's like, okay, mommy's brain is not good, so I need to protect it.

Bri (25:55)
Animals in general, just know they know things, you know, without even having our language and being able to communicate. They have their way of communicating.

Brenda Sowers (26:04)
Exactly. And then, when I started having seizures post my first surgery, I had what's called absent seizures, so I didn't even know I was having a seizure. I would just lose time. I would come to and she'd be licking my face or licking my hand or something. So she knew, she knew something was not right and that she had to snap me out of it somehow.

Bri (26:26)
Yeah. Wow. And of course, before all of this, running and rock climbing was a huge part of your life. Seems like a big part of your identity even. What does your identity in that respect look like today? Or what aspects of your identity are most salient today?

Brenda Sowers (26:43)
I struggled a lot with those two identities. Between the first and the second surgery, I pushed myself way too hard. That’s when I did a intense, you know, 25K, I did a 55K. I was really like trying to prove that I could be the old me and then some and I just kept backsliding because I wasn't fully recovered and my immune system was shot. Every time I'd get blood work, it's like my white count was always low. My neutrophils were always low. I still remember talking in my little, the Brain Tumor Companion group. And I kept saying, I just, I wanna be the person I used to be and all this stuff and it was so interesting because almost everybody in the group was like, I get it, but you really need to stop that. You're hurting yourself. But they did it in a very encouraging way. They understood because they've all been there. That really did help over time.

And now I don't rock climb. I don't even have the desire to rock climb anymore. My husband, he was amazing. He's like, we're gonna get in the gym, we're gonna rock climb. So we started rock climbing together, but I just didn't have that drive and passion anymore.

And now with running, I have gotten to a point where it's like, yeah, I don't wanna do anymore races. I don't wanna compete. I just wanna enjoy the nature and I don't care how fast or how slow I am. I don't care if I walk. It's definitely evolved. I like the fact that I don't actually have anything identity to attached to. If that makes sense.

Bri (28:24)
Yeah, absolutely.

Brenda Sowers
I'm good with not having any attachment for my identity. I'm just me.

Bri (28:29)
How has all of this rewired your mind, Brenda?

Brenda Sowers (28:33)
My god, in many ways. I just have a different appreciation of life. I don't worry about getting older. I used to not want to get older. And now I'm like, wow, another year and I'm here. This is awesome. Yeah, and just appreciating all the little things. Like I'm watching the wind blowing through the trees right now while I'm talking to you and it's like, I appreciate that, that's amazing.

Bri (28:58)
It's like a zest for the details in life.

Brenda Sowers (29:03)
I like that. Yes. Definitely.

Bri (29:05)
Oh wow. Brenda, thank you so much for sharing. I have no doubt that listeners have connected with various aspects of your story. You are the first person that I've spoken with that has had two different tumor diagnoses. Certainly, I've had guests with a recurrence, but not a completely different diagnosis. And I know that you're not alone in that. I know that there are others out there. And so I have no doubt that our community will resonate with your story and may even want to connect with you. And if that's the case how can they find you?

Brenda Sowers (29:37)
I am either on Instagram. If you just look up Brenda Scott-Sowers you'll find me on Instagram and Facebook. And then my email.

Bri (29:46)
I will get all of it in the show notes to make it as easy as possible for everyone too. Thank you so much, Brenda. I really appreciate you taking the time.

Brenda Sowers (29:52)
Thank you. I appreciate you taking the time for me.

Bri (30:03)
Thank you for being part of the Rewired Minds community. Full show notes, resources, and a transcript for today's conversation can be found at rewired-minds.com. If you or someone you know has a brain tumor story to share, I'd love to hear from you. Visit rewired-minds.com to learn more about collaborating on a future episode. This podcast is a one woman labor of love. It's a true honor to bring it to your ears and facilitate connection among the brain tumor community. If this episode resonated with you, please rate, review, and share with someone who might need to hear it.

Bri (30:35)
The stories shared in this podcast are personal accounts from the brain tumor community for informational and awareness purposes only and are not intended as medical advice. Always consult with qualified healthcare professionals regarding your specific situation.