{"id":13436,"date":"2017-02-08T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T18:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=13436"},"modified":"2017-02-08T10:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T18:59:17","slug":"13436","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2017\/02\/08\/13436\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardin learned the hard way — how a brain tumour changed her life for the better"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Excerpted from the blog of CBC Radio — The Current<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Three years ago, Madeleine Hardin<\/strong> was an associate dean at the\u00a0University of the Fraser\u00a0Valley gunning for a more senior position.<\/p>\n

But at a routine eye examination, she discovered that she had a brain tumour the size of baseball.<\/p>\n

“It’s what I call a ‘holy crow’ moment.”<\/p>\n

Madeleine underwent surgery and had the tumour removed, but she says the diagnosis transformed her.<\/p>\n

“When I got the diagnosis,\u00a0it’s funny, it’s a laser point of figuring out your priorities. The most important thing becomes love of family, love of friends, and love of God, I guess.”\u00a0Madeleine\u00a0says.<\/p>\n

“Nothing else matters.”<\/p>\n

Although recovery was difficult, Madeleine says she has never been happier. She is now retired from UFV after along career as professor and administrator.<\/p>\n

Listen to her story here<\/a>.
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(Excerpted from the blog of CBC Radio — The Current) Three years ago, Madeleine Hardin was an associate dean at the\u00a0University of the Fraser\u00a0Valley gunning for a more senior position. But at a routine eye examination, she discovered that she had a brain tumour the size of baseball. “It’s what I call a ‘holy crow’ … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13447,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436\/revisions\/13447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}