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Holliston Vol. 2 No. 5
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BY J.D. O’GARA
Six years ago, Diane Sereno, of Holliston had no idea she’d be participating in her fifth Boston Brain Tumor Bike Ride on May 18th to raise money for the National Brain Tumor Society – or that the cause would be so close to her heart. The fall of 2008 was a time to celebrate. Her son, Brian, had just gotten married.
This is the 12th year of the Holliston Business Association’s Spring Stroll, and seeing the winter we’ve had, it seems the local business organization made a great move in pushing it to the month of May from April. The Stroll will take place this year from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 3rd.
A couple of months after the wedding, Brian began experiencing a terrible headache that lasted a few days.
Brian was admitted, and with excruciating pain from swelling, had the tumor soon removed. A week later, tests had determined it was a
Shown is the Sereno family, Christine Mulford, of Severna Park, MD, Diane Sereno, of Holliston, Jackson Nolan, of Medway, Frank Sereno, of Holliston and Denise Nolan, of Medway at the 2013 Brain Tumor Bike Ride. The family was drawn to the cause five years ago, after Diane and Frank’s son, Brian, was diagnosed with a Grade 4 Glioblastoma at age 29. He is still healthy and now the father of two boys thanks to prayers, his positive attitude, good doctors and the Duke clinical trial. The Sereno family will continue to raise money for the National Brain Tumor Society again on May 18th.
“The typical prognosis was 18 months survival,” says Diane, who said Brian was told he could try to get into clinical trials. “Luckily, he lived in an area, near the National Institutes
of Health, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Duke Medical Center, where he could investigate getting into one of
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“We encourage people to park at the Adams Middle School and pick up the trolley or to park in the municipal parking down on Exchange Street, and just come, have fun, enjoy the day and visit a business you’ve never visited before,” says Stacey Raffi, HBA Vice President, who will herself run a raffle for Tim’s Team. The trolley, says Raffi, is sponsored by Ed and Dorian Daniels from Executive Realties and the Holliston Reporter.
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“He called and said, ‘I have the worst headache of my life,’” says Sereno. Rather than go to the emergency room, Brian had made a doctor’s appointment, but before he had the chance to go, he asked his young wife to call 911. Since he was just 29 years old, the EMTs assumed Brian was dehydrated, but a CAT scan at the emergency room revealed something far worse. The test found a walnut-size mass.
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“You can get it on Center St. at Fiske’s parking lot, it will stop on Washington Street by the Library, and then it will go down Elm, stop at end of Elm and railroad so people can walk to e-Motion computer services. Then it’s going to stop on corner of Grove and Railroad,” says Raffi, “and possibly in front of little green phonebook.” The HBA event will actually kick off the night before, on May 2, with a fundraiser to benefit the Holliston Business Association’s Community Action Fund. Nationally-recognized Hypnotist Dan Candell will dazzle the audience at Upper Town Hall at 7:30 p.m. with his ‘The Wild Side of Hypnosis — Comedy Hypnosis Show with Dan Candell.” The night, sponsored prima-
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