Hi, my name is Amy Rankin. I am a coffee-loving, music-making, photo-taking identical twin. I also am a neurocytoma survivor.
In 2008, after weeks of headaches and dizzy spells that left me sitting on the floor of my office break room, I was diagnosed with a grade II neurocytoma, a type of brain tumor. Mine was the size of a walnut. Facing neurocytoma at the age of 26, all I could do was focus on the positives, which...
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