Colorado
Name: Zach
City: Pueblo
Brain Injury: Malignant Brain Tumor in 1993 at 9 years of age (Medulloblastoma)
Explanation of Mask: After being diagnosed with a malignant (medulloblastoma) brain tumor at the age of 9 and spending a total of three years of my life (over a 23 year time period) in various hospitals which accompanied 38 brain surgeries, I sometimes look back and feel like I’m watching someone else go through all of that, through a pair of windows, thinking how did I do it all. I also wanted to convey that after being diagnosed with an acquired brain injury, it’s almost like looking out at an empty future. You just don’t know what you can do with the rest of your life. Your window into the future changes dramatically as on navigates through life with a brain injury.