Nearly 5 years ago, T-Boz began experiencing frequent headaches and discovered that she had a non-cancerous brain tumor. Due to her sickle cell anemia, her doctor made it clear that surgery would be too dangerous and radiation would affect her career & quality of life.
With a strong step out on faith, Watkins found a surgeon to successfully remove her tumor, proving her relentless ability to defeat all odds. Check out her Human Factor feature on CNN’s blog, The Chart.
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/04/human-factor-tboz-and-survival-you-have-to-face-your-fears/
Below is a snippet of what she personally wrote about her experience and what she has learned about overcoming fear:
I don't believe in changing anything because I think everything happens for a reason. If I didn' have bad things happen, I wouldn't know the good things. I am wiser now. With age comes wisdom and I am looking forward to becoming wiser. I am not one of those people who is ashamed to say how old I am...i’m 41 because other people told me I wasn't even supposed to be alive at this age. It made me who I am and I'm happy with me and I am just glad I learned from my mistakes.
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