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If you were to ask Brenda "What's wrong with me." she would answer "What isn't." Hey it is an easier answer. But last week I had surgery to remove a tumor type thing from the third finger on my right hand.  It was gross, bloody and hurt like H...

Brenda and I have conversations about what we would do with $1,500,000,000 if we won the Powerball drawing.  Aside from the annuity, or taking the lump sum, what would I do?

Desiray, wrote on Facebook asking where she could see the rest of my story about "My Life With Cancer."  I've been writing my story about the last 11 years in small chapters, so you can check in each day.  I thought about putting all the chapters on at once, but decided not to overwhelm you with too much.

When doctors want something they are relentless, especially when it comes to money and insurance.  OK, maybe not the doctors themselves so much as the administration of the hospital. My refusing Chemo was costing the hospital anywhere from twenty to one hundred thousand dollars; it's big business.  So I know my doctor was getting called on the carpet as to why I wasn't following his suggestions. R

The protocol for treating Lymphoma is Chemo, stem cell transplants, radiation and of course surgery.  So I knew they would be pushing the other three since I'd already gone through the Surgery part.  Since I had gone through the various scans, they knew exactly where the tumors were, there was no mistaking it.

I'll continue with my story later today, but for now I have to follow my heart.

I was in Ryan's (Dr. Cole) office when we found out the results of the test from the Pentagon....Nope not it.  I was deflated.  I had 5 tumors and they weren't an infection. In the immortal words of Captain Jack Sparrow,  AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGG...

As the spring turned into summer we started on a journey to find out what I actually had.  Ryan started looking into every different kind of infection that would cause the bumps, we looked at things, common and some uncommon.

After the operations I was in kind of a limbo state waiting for results.  I remember Dr. Burr saying to his blushing assistant, "send those to Cole."  Little did I know Dr. Cole would become an important part of my life and a buddy.  This is also where my story takes an unusual twist...

This is my story of having incurable cancer. Even if you get diagnosed with cancer, it doesn't mean it's a death sentence.