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“When I had brain surgery in May, they removed large portions of the tumor,” she said in the new video. “Something I haven’t talked about is there are still large parts of it left.” She was technically cancer-free, and her doctors believed it was safer to leave part of the tumor in the places where it would be “dangerous to perform surgery,” she explained. Giertz thought the tumor might come back, but she didn’t expect it to do so only eight months after her initial surgery.
To combat the tumor, Giertz plans to undergo radiation therapy. “Monday to Friday for six weeks, I have to go the hospital and put 
this mask over my face to hold it in place and they are going to radiate my brain to hopefully damage enough of the tumor to discourage it from ever growing again,” she said. There are many potential side effects to this sort of treatment, including blindness, deafness, hair loss dementia. The success rate is 90 percent with her type of tumor, but she’s still extremely frightened about what could happen.
“I’m sick of being sick, and I have so many plans and projects I want to build. I was so excited for 2019,” she said, admitting that she was reluctant to make this video because she didn’t want to be labeled “brain tumor girl.”
Giertz’s fans have been quick to show their support, with a post on Reddit gathering thousands of upvotes in a few hours. “Really, really hope that this treatment works and she doesn't have any of the 
shitty side effects that she said might happen,” wrote one user. “She doesn’t deserve something as shitty as brain cancer for the joy and inspiration she gives to people,” said another.
Here’s hoping everything works out and Giertz is back to making ridiculous technology builds soon. If you would like to help the YouTuber, you can donate to her Patreon。
中文翻译：
youtube用户西蒙·吉尔兹(Simone Giertz)刚刚宣布，她的脑瘤复发了。在上周五上传的一段视频中，这位28岁的男子神情严肃地盯着镜头宣布:“又是这样的一段视频。”
2018年4月，这位科技频道主持人宣布她得了脑瘤(她给它起名叫布莱恩[Brian])，目前还不清楚这是否会结束她的生命。粉丝们显然很伤心，在她接受手术时给予了她大量的支持。在接下来的几个月里，她的肿瘤似乎得到了缓解，她的健康状况也很好，但它又复发了。
她在新视频中说:“今年5月我接受脑部手术时，他们切除了大部分肿瘤。”“有一件事我还没有谈到，那就是它仍然有很大一部分遗留下来。”从技术上讲，她没有患癌症，她的医生认为，把部分肿瘤留在“手术危险”的地方会更安全，她解释说。吉尔茨认为肿瘤可能会复发，但她没想到在第一次手术后八个月就复发了。
为了对抗肿瘤，吉尔茨计划接受放射治疗。她说:“从周一到周五的六周时间里，我都要去医院，戴上这个面具，把它固定在我的脸上。医生将对我的大脑进行辐射，希望能损伤到足够的肿瘤，阻止它再次生长。”这种治疗有许多潜在的副作用，包括失明、耳聋、脱发和痴呆。她患这种肿瘤的成功率是90%，但她仍然非常担心会发生什么。
“我厌倦了生病，我有太多的计划和项目要做。我为2019年感到非常兴奋，”她说，并
承认她不愿意制作这段视频，因为她不想被贴上“脑瘤女孩”的标签。
吉尔茨的粉丝们迅速表示了他们的支持，他们在Reddit上的一个帖子在几个小时内就获得了数千人的支持。一名用户写道:“真的，真的希望这种治疗有效，她不会出现任何她说的可能发生的糟糕的副作用。”另一位网友说:“她给人们带来的快乐和鼓舞，配不上像脑癌这样糟糕的东西。”
希望一切顺利，Giertz很快就会回到荒谬的技术构建上来。如果你想帮助YouTuber，你可以捐赠给她Patreon。
