Mikah’s Story

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07/06/23

Living a normal life with a rare form of glioblastoma

One day in January 2018, Mikah Phillips came home from school with a headache. After it persisted, his mom, Debbie, took the 9-year-old to a pediatrician. Eventually, they went to a pediatric emergency room in Panama City, Florida, where doctors thought Mikah may have a sinus headache, possibly the flu.

A computerized tomography, or CT scan, revealed a parent’s worst nightmare for Debbie and Justin Phillips. Mikah had a brain tumor that was 6 centimeters in diameter, about the size of an egg. He was rushed to a children’s hospital in Pensacola, where he had surgery to remove the mass.