It was a life-changing selfie.Eight years in the past, Megan Troutwine traveled to New York Metropolis to see her late cousin, Tony Martinez, who was dwelling in Harlem.“We had a lot enjoyable, simply taking photos and seeing the websites,” the good-spirited 33-year-old from Hudson, Florida, informed The Submit. “When you’ve gotten household dwelling there, your coronary heart hits these streets in a different way.”Megan Troutwine realized one thing was improper after taking this selfie outdoors of Rockefeller Middle. Courtesy of Megan TroutwineWhile in Midtown, the pair visited Rockefeller Middle, and Troutwine stopped to take a selfie subsequent to the close by reflecting pool and fountains on Sixth Avenue.“I seemed on the image, and my eyelid was drooping,” Troutwine recalled. “I believed it was odd, so once I returned house, I discussed it to my neurologist.”The physician ordered an MRI, and on her method house from the scan, she obtained a name: That they had discovered a benign mass inside her mind that was rising at an aggressive price.“I discovered I had a meningioma,” which is the commonest type of mind most cancers, defined Troutwine. “This prognosis, it’s exhausting.”Troutwine started remedy instantly at Tampa’s Moffitt Most cancers Middle. First, surgical procedure was carried out to take away the tumor. Then a follow-up process revealed the presence of one other main mind tumor — this one, a glioma.After mentioning her drooping eye to her neurologist, she discovered she had mind most cancers. Megan Troutwine/FacebookDoctors knowledgeable Troutwine — now working as a well being unit coordinator at Moffitt — that the tumor would proceed to slowly develop, and that she’d probably require lifelong monitoring for her situation.On high of that, docs additionally found she carries the PTEN gene mutation, placing her at better threat for creating different cancers.Troutwine’s ordeal solely lately got here to gentle in a latest report on her native Fox station.Since 2017, when she underwent a craniotomy, Troutwine was recognized with and handled for each breast and uterine most cancers, she informed The Submit.All through her powerful therapies, Troutwine mentioned she’s been lucky sufficient to fulfill “among the most real and galvanizing individuals” she’s ever recognized.Medical doctors then found Troutwine carries the PTEN gene mutation, placing her at better threat for creating different cancers. Megan Troutwine/Fb“Most cancers was not my first alternative, however I wouldn’t commerce the place I’m or what I’ve gone by for something,” she mentioned. She added that by her work now, she’s in a position to assist “individuals in probably the most tough time of their lives. So many individuals going by this don’t have that assist system by it, so to be a vessel for that may be a blessing.”The church ministry pupil mentioned she plans on pursuing a second diploma — in public well being.“I’ve a coronary heart for individuals and making an attempt to assist individuals in any method that I can,” Troutwine mentioned.Since her preliminary NYC go to, Troutwine misplaced her cousin to pancreatic most cancers. She’s been again to town solely as soon as — “to pay homage to the reminiscences I shared with him.”