Actress Busy Philipps disclosed this week that a full-body MRI she booked after her own physician told her she was too healthy to need one found a brain tumor she had no symptoms of. Two operations later, she told People that she is grateful to be alive and described the past half year as the strangest of her life.
The scan was done in February. It flagged a lesion, follow up imaging confirmed a tumor in her frontal lobe, and on March 2 a five hour operation removed a 2.6 centimeter grade 2 oligodendroglioma. In April, a dermatologist noticed the incision looked wrong during a Botox appointment and refused to proceed. That led to a staph infection diagnosis and a second operation on April 27 to clean the site and remove one of the small titanium tacks placed in her skull during the first procedure.
