A lot of you have been asking about how my wife Laura has been doing recovering from brain surgery to remove a cancerous tumor.

So today's episode is going to be a quick update on that, as well as an update on a change to the channel going forward.

First, an update on Laura. So there are many types of brain tumors. I want to give you a little bit of a background on that before I talk about the recent results of the genetic testing

that was done on the tumor removed from Laura's brain. So Laura had a glioma, which is a cancerous

brain tumor. Grade one gliomas are the easiest to treat, and grade four is basically terminal.

About 55% of gliomas are glioblastomas, or grade 4 cancers. These have about a 5% five-year survival

rate. Laura's tumor did not look like a glioblastoma before they went in, but there was a small

chance that it was a genetic grade 4 that had not developed yet. Next, there are astrocytomas,

which are about 25% of gliomas. These are a little bit better,

but they still only have about a 45% five-year survival rate. And then we have oligodendro-gliomas.

These make up the other 10%, and then those other random gliomas and tumors that round everything out.

The tumor type that responds the best to treatment would be the

grade two oligliomas because they grow much slower than a grade three. This is especially the

case with these particular tumors that have an IDH mutant gene that can be targeted with new

IDH inhibitor drugs. So I want to thank you all so much

for your prayers because Laura has this particular kind of tumor. And it's comparatively rare. It

makes up only about 2 to 8% of all gliomas. And it has an 80 to 90% five-year survival rate. So I truly believe that this was God working in

our lives and that all of your prayers were very helpful. So thank you for that. On a personal note,

Laura says that she's also so thankful for everyone's prayers, everyone volunteering to help,

and she's praying for all of you as well. Right now, she's resting a lot

because she gets tired easily, like her brain is still trying to heal. And she's working very hard to

recover her speech. She says that she basically feels like a kid again because she has to do these

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