Hello, I'm Trish. My 16 year old daughter was diagnosed with a rare Chordoma Brain Tumor in February 2023. She had her 1st surgery on March 7th. They were able to get 40% of the tumor so far. It was a hard tumor and they were hoping for it to be softer. Her surgery lasted for about 12 hours. She stayed at the hospital for about 1 week and then was released to come back home and recoup until they can do her next surgery. Hopefully we will find out next week when we see her neurosurgeon. Right now she has a lot of balance issues and we are looking into getting her a service puppy to train. Honestly she just wants to be a normal teenage girl again.