“Lift the burdens so they can focus on the fight” | Suffolk nonprofit supports brain tumor patients and caregivers [Video]

SUFFOLK, Va. — Samaria ‘Sam’ Hunter is a retired Naval Officer and enjoys running marathons. In March 2015, she began having what she thought were spasms in her legs.

“It was chalked off to, it’s the running,” she said.

But the problems persisted.

“It went all the way through July [2015] before it was realized that it was something serious,” Hunter said. “[One] particular night, the spasm walked from my bottom of my foot all the way up my left side. And I could feel it going over my heart, my abdomen, into my head.”

Soon after, she was diagnosed with a meningioma on the right frontal lobe– a brain tumor.

“You think, ‘Is my life [going to] end?’ I had my five-year-old with me at the hospital, and he …