Category Archives: Health

My First Surgery

Previous Post in this Series: The Treatment Plan
This is where it all got real. I was wheeled into an operating room, a place I had never been before and hoped that I’d never go.
I was scared.
Surgery meant that this [...]

The Treatment Plan

Previous Post in this Series: Another Battle – No Health Insurance
So here I was. Newly diagnosed with cancer, no health insurance, and only 3 weeks into my new job.
The Job
The first thing that needed to happen was that I needed [...]

Another Battle – No Health Insurance

Previous Post in this Series: The Diagnoses – Esophageal Cancer
As if being told that you have cancer is not bad enough there was another battle brewing in the midst. We did not have health insurance. I’d like to say that [...]

The Diagnoses – Esophageal Cancer

Previous Post in this Series: Having Cancer as a Christian
“The biopsy came back positive, you have cancer of the esophagus” the doctor said as I sat in the hospital bed. The words were unreal. Here is was, 34 years old, [...]

Having Cancer as a Christian

It is weird to sit here and think about everything that has happened in the last few months. In life you hear of other people who go through difficult times in your life but you never really know what is [...]