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When I first started working at Arnold Palmer Hospital, always the youngest on the team has to take call over Christmas. So, on Christmas Eve, I got called because there was a young girl, four years old, who came in to the emergency room the night before with vomiting, and headaches, and trouble walking. And when we did some MRIs of her brain, she was found to have a brain tumor.
我刚开始在 Arnold Palmer 医院工作时，总是团队里最菜的要在圣诞节值班。所以，在圣诞夜，我被叫去值班，因为有个年轻小女孩，四岁，她前晚进到急诊室，伴随着呕吐、头痛、和行走困难。然后当我们替她做脑部核磁共振造影时，她被发现有一颗脑瘤。

And I remember going into the family's room on the 24th of December to have to tell them that their daughter had a brain tumor, and that it was a malignant cancerous brain tumor. And I'll never forget that the dad said to me, he said, "Will I ever get to walk my daughter in her wedding?" I said to him at that point, I said, "I don't know, but we're gonna try damn hard to make that happen." She had three surgeries to remove the tumor, because it kept growing back. She underwent chemotherapy for over a year and a half.
然后我记得在12月24号这天要进到亲属休息室去告诉他们，他们的女儿有颗脑瘤，而那是一颗恶性脑瘤。而我永远不会忘记那位爸爸对我说的话，他说：“我将来究竟能陪我女儿在她的婚礼上走红毯吗？”我在那时候告诉他，我说：“我不知道，但我们会死命尽全力试着让那发生。”她动了三次手术来移除肿瘤，因为肿瘤一直重新长回来。她接受超过一年半的化疗。

She's been off her therapy now for six months. And you know, she's actually doing great. She doesn't have any evidence of the tumor whatsoever. She's back in school, happy, playful. And I remember that I told the father, I said, "The only thing I've ever wanted is to be able to go to her wedding one day." He told me a couple of weeks ago that he was planning to have me walk her.
她现在已经远离她的治疗六个月了。而你知道，她真的复原得不错。她没有任何肿瘤的迹象。她回到学校，快乐、活泼可爱。然后我记得我告诉那位父亲，我说：“我至今想要做到的唯一一件事，就是有一天能参加她的婚礼。”他几周前告诉我他计划让我陪她走红毯。
When that dad gives me a call and tells me to walk Chloe down the aisle for her wedding, I'll probably retire after that, because I don't think there could be a greater high, or sense of fulfillment after that. It's a truth...
当那位爸爸打给我，然后告诉我去牵着 Chloe 在她的婚礼走过红毯时，我大概在那之后就会退休了，因为我不认为在那之后还能有更高的成就、或更大的满足感。这是真话...

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概念点拨：

脑肿瘤的症状主要取决于两个因素：肿瘤的大小（体积），肿瘤的位置。而症状出现的时间点和病程通常和肿瘤的性质有关（良性－慢速增长／晚期症状出现，或恶性－快速增长／早期症状出现）。
大型脑肿瘤或肿瘤肿胀伴随的脑水肿会导致颅内压升高，在临床上会造成头痛、呕吐、意识状态改变（嗜睡、昏迷）亦或是瞳孔病变。此外，即便是小型肿瘤，也都可能阻碍脑脊液（CSF）的通过而导致早期颅内压的增加。在幼儿，颅内压的增加也可能导致头骨直径增加和囟门鼓胀。
根据脑肿瘤的位置，无论是经由压迫或渗透转移，都有可能会直接损害肿瘤生长部位以及附近的脑结构，导致局部神经症状的发生，例如认知和行为能力的下降、个性变化、偏瘫、感觉迟钝、失语症、视野变小以及颜部瘫痪等。

词组点拨：

「几个、数个」- A Couple Of
He told me a couple of weeks ago that he was planning to have me walk her.
他几周前告诉我他计画让我陪她走红毯。