In my career I have encountered a number of individuals with brain tumors. They exhibited a variety of deficits in sensory and motor skills and all in all they were a heart wrenching bunch with whom to work.
In the medical environment you are supposed to suspend all feelings otherwise and tend to business. This is something I did.
However, that time after work was revisited with events of the previous day and I have to admit an inability to cope with certain aspects of my duties during that off time ... particularly while working with younger persons and children in particular.
It's a difficult matter to stop being a person even though the workaday world requires it. So you do what you can in that regard and try to cry it all out when nobody is looking.
Today is World Brain Tumor Day. Held under the auspices of Deutsche Hirntumorhilfe e.V. (German Brain Tumor Association) which provides information and support to brain tumor patients. It is held as a day of commemoration and tribute to those patients and their families for that difficulty they endure with the course of their illness. The day promotes interdisciplinary approaches to current therapy.