It helps, of course, that my son Matthew with the brain tumor is alive and well. He was 11 when he was diagnosed and he’s now about to turn 31.Black Hole: The brain tumor that sucked in my son and me.446Karen DeBonisRandomly MeFollowJul 29, 2017 · 1 min readPhew! So glad to hear it. I, too, hope forever for Matthew will be a very long time.