Saturday, July 4, 2009 East Central Illinois

Brain tumor brings unexpected blessings for Urbana woman

By Amy F. Reiter
Sunday, December 21, 2008 8:02 AM CDT

URBANA – For years, even decades, a war went on within C.K. "Tina" Gunsalus' skull.

And through those years, her brain lost ground, squashing up against itself as a tumor grew into the size of a baseball, an insidious mass making a place for itself where her brain once resided.

If it sounds like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," it almost was.

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