When Josiah began suffering headaches out of nowhere, the timing could not have been worse. His wedding to Lauren, his college sweetheart, was just a month away when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The visit to the neurosurgeon changed their lives but not their plans to marry. Three days after their wedding, Josiah underwent brain surgery. It was only then that the newlyweds learned that the full diagnosis was an aggressive form of brain cancer: Glioblastoma multiforme or GBM. With a careful treatment plan, and Lauren by his side Josiah is planning a future and keeping up his many interests. Watch Josiah’s courageous story on Medical Stories, the Emmy award-winning docuseries on PBS.
Medical Stories, is a new documentary film series produced for PBS / Public Television - taking viewers on an emotional and inspirational journey through cinematic storytelling, as the lens focuses on ordinary people going through extraordinary measures of courage and triumph.
The stories of these brave patients are revealed by their incredible willpower to help inspire, improve and transform the lives of others through their own personal narrative and are reinforced by leading medical experts in the field. At times, the patient experience connects them with a remarkable support base community, which often may help contribute to their positive outcome, through a vast foundation of hope and encouragement.
Please subscribe to our RU-vid channel and look for Josiah's story airing nationwide as part of a Public Television series entitled: Medical Stories. Check your, local PBS listings today! Or visit medicalstories.tv/ to learn more about this documentary series.
25 май 2021
