{"id":3167,"date":"2023-08-16T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2023-08-16T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T17:39:33","slug":"little-house-on-the-prairie-actress-says-her-faith-in-god-helped-her-conquer-brain-tumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/2023\/08\/little-house-on-the-prairie-actress-says-her-faith-in-god-helped-her-conquer-brain-tumor.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Little House on the Prairie Actress Says Her Faith in God Helped Her Conquer Brain Tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3182\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3182\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/410\/2023\/08\/little-house-on-the-prairie-baby-grace-02_credit-NBC-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wendi Lou Lee experienced dizzy spells and headaches for weeks before her diagnosis. The mother of two had a brain tumor. The former actress, who played \u201cBaby Grace\u201d Ingalls on \u201cLittle House on the Prairie,\u201d wrote a memoir titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Tail-Feathers-Discover-Beauty\/dp\/B0C7SLFG6C\">Red Tail Feathers: Dare to Discover the Beauty of Grace<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book shares her health battle and how she relied on faith in God during her recovery. The 45-year-old previously discussed her diagnosis with Fox News Digital in 2019. Lee told Fox News Digital, \u201cThis book was like a big therapy session after my brain surgery. I felt like I had to look back on my life through a different lens. And I saw grace in a different way. I defined it in a different way. And I felt God changed my perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Lee started suffering from \u201ccrazy headaches\u201d that wouldn\u2019t disappear. For six weeks, she \u201ctried everything\u201d as doctors struggled to find the cause of her health problems. Lee admitted, \u201cI started to think that maybe I was going a little crazy. Maybe I was overdramatizing something. I was going through that battle where you\u2019re just doubting what you think you\u2019re feeling for a long time. I was at the doctor every week. I go to the doctor once a year, so this was very strange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee was sitting at her office job when she suddenly felt \u201clike my whole equilibrium just went to the right.\u201d She immediately left work, picked up her kids from school and called her doctor, stressing that something was seriously wrong. New tests were ordered. This time, Lee finally had an answer. A growing tumor was discovered in the ventricles of her brain.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OhBxwDe8Ps8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She recalled, \u201c[My doctor] finally ordered the brain scan. I don\u2019t know why we didn\u2019t order the brain scan earlier, but I was just listening to my doctor and trusting my doctor and not thinking, \u2018Oh yeah, I have a brain tumor.\u2019 I wasn\u2019t going there. And she didn\u2019t go there. And then, all of a sudden, that\u2019s what it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her brain surgery was scheduled for the next week, and Lee said she felt relieved, explaining, \u201cIt might sound crazy, but for so long, we didn\u2019t know what it was. Sometimes, an answer, no matter what the answer is, is better than the unknown. And so, for me, I was so relieved to go, \u2018I can move forward.\u2019 Because for so long, there was nothing. There was no answer. And that\u2019s just a terrifying place to be. I was like, \u2018This could go well, or this could not go well, but at least I have a path to take.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee said her \u201cvery faithful close walk with God\u201d gave her the bravery to face brain surgery and the possible complications that could come with it. She said, \u201cI have been a believer my whole life. I was raised in the church, and it\u2019s just a part of who I am. But there\u2019s something that happens when you go through something really hard that just brings you to a different level. It makes you cling to God in a way that you never knew that you could. It was an eye-opening feeling of \u2018I do need God more than I ever knew that I needed Him.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surgery was successful. And a long recovery awaited Lee. Her loved ones and prayer gave her comfort as she navigated life again. Today, Lee hopes her book will encourage others to &#8220;see God&#8221; amid their obstacles in life. She said, &#8220;How do you see grace in all of it? How do you keep going when the road is tough? I tell [readers] at the end of the book, \u2018Now you go find some red tail feathers of your own.\u2019 The encouragement is to take the time to look through your life and see God in a new way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendi Lou Lee experienced dizzy spells and headaches for weeks before her diagnosis. The mother of two had a brain tumor. 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