The Quick Update

About Adventures With Recursive Functions

This blog provides updates on Rob Rex’s crazy health journey (Spoiler Alert – it is the most aggressive form of brain cancer – a glioblastoma) but also touches on a little bit of everything about me and my thoughts. It is part therapy, part emotional and mental outlet, and part something to keep my mind off what promise to be some pretty unpleasant medical experiences. Need Help Getting Started?


Recent Posts

Unwanted Guest Post

When Rob started this blog he made it abundantly clear that he would solely be responsible for all content; while he gave me editing rights, I was certainly not to use them. However, everything happened so fast – too fast – so I’ve been left with no other option than to break the rules and…

Pathology is Back

The Great Weight has a ‘name’ and a ‘grade.’ This is good. Or would be, if it wasn’t the one that we had been hoping to avoid. My tumor is officially a Grade 4 Glioma, called a glioblastoma, which is the most aggressive brain cancer out there. With the feedback that Dr. Weingart provided throughout…

Downs and Ups and a Trip Home!

I am a huge fan of a piece of advice pulled from semi-popular 80s one-hit-wonder Baz Luhrmann. I quote it often and my inlaws and wife – descendants from a long line of born preparers and worriers – have always thought I was crazy. Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying…

Team Rex & LFG

Now, THESE are fun posts to write. I’ve cried more in the last 20 days than I have in the last 20 years – and it is not close. The first few days were some little leaks, mostly driven by shock. Then the surgery, recovery days, and uncertainty got the best of me for a…

The Quick Update

Wow, really? You just want to jump to… OK. Let’s do this. Who, What, Where, When, Why. Who – Rob Rex, that’s who I am a 41-year-old marketing professional and entrepreneur that up until ~2 weeks before the launch of this blog was enjoying a nice quiet life in suburban Severna Park Maryland with my…

A Truly Pleasant Lull in our Harrowing Adventure

The time between the meeting with Dr. Weingart, where we came up with the surgery plan and answered all the questions to the evening before my surgery on the 23rd was a pretty chill and fantastic time. I had some hard conversations sharing the news with folks, and there were a lot of tears and emotions involved. Still, the groundswell of support very quickly became strong in the best and most genuine way, and my body responded to the steroids that Dr. Weingart prescribed to prepare me for the surgery.