She was determined to backpack through the Grand Canyon for the 11th time even after a devastating diagnosis.
She had already done it 10 times in 10 years — a goal she set for herself in her 40s when people told her it was too hard to even try once., an aggressive form of brain cancer that can affect anyone, at any age — the cause is unknown.
Barbara Lock hikes the Grand Canyon for the 11th time in November 2022. The trip came almost two years after her brain cancer diagosis.“My mom likes to do things even though people think she can’t,” her daughter, Brittany Lock, 30, tells TODAY.com. Athletic and a lover of the outdoors, she did her first backpacking trip through the Grand Canyon in June of 2011, ignoring skeptics who thought she couldn’t do it — then came back year after year. She went from rim to rim, from rim to the river, and from rim to rim to rim.
“It was like word salad. She just started saying a bunch of words that didn’t go together,” Brittany Lock says. Doctors told the family basic tests didn’t show anything suspicious, so they sent her home and advised watching for any more symptoms. They soon showed up again, with more seizures coming in the next days.
The family was told Barbara Lock probably had about 12 to 16 months to live. She underwent chemotherapy and radiation, then had a second brain surgery in February 2022 when the tumor came back.“She’d always tell me that it helped her to feel normal. So whenever she was feeling bad from her chemo treatment, she would take a walk and her headaches would go away and she would start to feel normal again,” Victoria Lock tells TODAY.com.
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