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 “Baby Grace” Ingalls on “Little House on the Prairie,” wrote a memoir titled “Red Tail Feathers: Dare to Discover the Beauty of Grace.”

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, “This 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.”

In 2015, Lee started suffering from “crazy headaches” that wouldn’t disappear. For six weeks, she “tried everything” as doctors struggled to find the cause of her health problems. Lee admitted, “I started to think that maybe I was going a little crazy. Maybe I was overdramatizing something. I was going through that battle where you’re just doubting what you think you’re 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.”

Lee was sitting at her office job when she suddenly felt “like my whole equilibrium just went to the right.” 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.

She recalled, “[My doctor] finally ordered the brain scan. I don’t know why we didn’t order the brain scan earlier, but I was just listening to my doctor and trusting my doctor and not thinking, ‘Oh yeah, I have a brain tumor.’ I wasn’t going there. And she didn’t go there. And then, all of a sudden, that’s what it was.”

Her brain surgery was scheduled for the next week, and Lee said she felt relieved, explaining, “It might sound crazy, but for so long, we didn’t 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, ‘I can move forward.’ Because for so long, there was nothing. There was no answer. And that’s just a terrifying place to be. I was like, ‘This could go well, or this could not go well, but at least I have a path to take.’”

Lee said her “very faithful close walk with God” gave her the bravery to face brain surgery and the possible complications that could come with it. She said, “I have been a believer my whole life. I was raised in the church, and it’s just a part of who I am. But there’s 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 ‘I do need God more than I ever knew that I needed Him.’”

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 “see God” amid their obstacles in life. She said, “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, ‘Now you go find some red tail feathers of your own.’ The encouragement is to take the time to look through your life and see God in a new way.”