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n July 2, 1999, Suzy Becker
had a mass removed from
her brain. Shortly after
Labor Day that same year,
she biked some 500 miles in the annu-
al Ride FAR (For AIDS Resources)
bike-a-thon.
"I don't recommend it for every-
one," says Becker, who organizes the
event every year as well as riding in it.
Despite her physical strength, the
author/illustrator
had a long way to
go before she started
to regain the verbal
dexterity and sense
of humor she had
before her opera-
tion. Her memoir I
before beginning to write and illus-
trate light works for children and
adults. Today, each issue of the online
environmental magazine
Gristmagazine.com includes her car-
toons and illustrations, and she's cur-
rently finishing a picture book called
Manny's Cows.
Before repeated seizures sent her to
neurosurgeon, Becker had received a
prestigious Mary Ingraham Bunting
Fellowship, a yearlong program for
women held on the Cambridge cam-
pus of Harvard University.
"The fact that Ride
FAR was a success
bolstered my confi-
dence so much that I
was able to go to the
Harvard campus that
fall," Becker says.
"Physically and psy-
chologically, it helped
Had Brain Surgery
me keep the outlook
What's Your Excuse?
of a healthy person."
(Workman
Although the Web
Publishing; $19.95)
site for the Bunting
traces the ups and
Fellowship includes
downs of the year
the clause "Preference
following her sur-
is given to those at a
gery.
critical juncture in
Liberally illustrat-
their careers," the
ed with the type of
founders had never
whimsical cartoons
envisioned that the
that made one of
"critical juncture "
Becker's pre-surgery
Suzy Becker: "Being who I am is
would include life-
books, All I Need To
not about being perfect.
altering surgery.
Know I Learned
Becker's speech was
From My Cat
garbled — when she tried to say "Jane
(Workman Publishing, $6.95 paper-
Brody," it came out "Brain Jody." She
back), a New York Times bestseller, this
had to overcome physical problems
unsentimental, no-holds-barred book
with the right side of her body — the
takes the mystique out of recovery.
hand she used for drawing — and she
Fortunately, Becker, who lives in a
feared that her sense of humor was
small Massachusetts town, learned
diminished.
early on that the growth in her brain
Today, although most of her skills
was not cancerous. Although the read-
have returned, she's not exactly the
er knows her story has a happy end-
same person as she was pre-surgery.
ing, I Had Brain Surgery ... captures
"The things I have that linger are not
the feelings of helplessness and anxiety
the things I would have preferred," sh e
that accompany serious medical diag-
says,
listing "trouble reading out loud,
noses and procedures — with a
more
trouble thinking on my feet, a
healthy dollop of humor.
little trouble with word retrieval."
Now 41, Becker grew up in Radnor,
But she can deal with these losses as
Pa., outside of Philadelphia, the sec-
long as she has her family, her friends
ond of three daughters of a Jewish
and her sense of humor. "Being who I
father and a Quaker mother. "We did
am is not about being perfect," she says .
all the holidays," she says.
There were times while she was
She studied economics and interna-
I Had Brain Suigeg . . . when
writing
tional relations at Brown University