Country Radio Show Host Remains Op­ti­mistic During Battle with Brain Tumor

"There's so many people who are probably going through what I'm going through right now who are very scared and need somebody else to talk about it because they can't."

It’s a powerful message that 96.9 The Kat morning radio show host (“Paul & Meg) hopes will help others.

 You may recognize her voice from the radio. Now, Meg Butterly is using that voice to help others. Butterly was experiencing headaches, which was unusual for her.

After four days in pain, she went to the ER, where doctors did a CT scan. “OK, no problem and came back about an half and hour later and said ok, what, headache, you're going to send me home right? He said no,  we found a spot on your CT and so we're going to keep you. The next day they came in and said the good news is you don't have aneurysm, you don't have a blood mass, and he said, but you have a tumor, and it's between your skull and your brain,” said Butterly.

Morning radio show host, Paul Schadt, remembers getting the phone call. “She calls me up later that night and says I got a tumor, and I was like....what? And she said 'yeah' and then she went in for the mris and the good news is although it's the size of a golfball, and it's a scary thing, that they said it's probably benign, so they can go in and take it out,” said Schadt.

Butterly will undergo surgery to remove the tumor on October 7th. "Almost like a GPS thing that they hook up to your head; that can actually pretty precisely locate the tumor where they have to make the incision, so the incision itself, will probably be about six inches long, but he only will shave the head, the amount he needs for the incision,” said Butterly.

Around the station, Butterly's optimistic attitude about her tumor has helped.

"Her being so positive has made it easier on everybody, including herself,” said Schadt.

Butterly says she know she will beat this situation. "I lost people to cancer; I lost my stepdad to cancer and he was given a death sentence...and they told him he had three to six months to live and he went at it with the whole idea of I have three to six months to live, I'm going to live my life to the fullest and I'm going to fight this thing as much as I can and he lived for seven years. I haven't been given a death sentence....why wouldn't I want to be anything else, but positive? Is it scary? Yeah, absolutely, it's scary, but you can't let something that scares you, deter you from living your life."