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You have cancer.
When you read those words, did you feel your heart sink into your chest? Did you notice your breath quicken or did you have a pit in your stomach? Perhaps you've heard those words. You might be terrified to hear those words. Even worse, those words could be looming in your future or the future of someone you love.
Everyone knows people get cancer.
So, when you hear the words, “You have cancer,” why are you shocked? We all tend to assume those statistics happen to others. We think: “I am healthy.” “I take care of myself.” “I never expected…”
I have heard those words and the thoughts above raced through my mind.
I have been a prostate cancer survivor since 2014. When I started my cancer battle, I wondered things like: How bad is it? What’s my expected chance for survival? How long? What happens to my life? What are the current new treatment options? What’s the best treatment? Even the dreaded, “Why me?”
These questions are difficult, unsettling, and terrifying.
It takes time to accept your new reality, see yourself as more than your cancer, and be ready and willing to fight for your life. Luckily, I’ve been blessed with a deep-rooted faith, an amazing wife, family, friends, and LSW, all who support me as my battle with prostate cancer continues. They give me support, encouragement, and hope.
Hope keeps cancer patients fighting. Part of the hope is the desperate desire to have the best treatment options and highest success and survival rates. However, sometimes there are moments of discouragement when you stop and ask “Why, with all our current technological advances, is there not a cure or better treatments?”
Breakthroughs are happening daily, but the research is expensive, the clinical trials are steep, and the funding is limited. Fundraising efforts, like Jana’s Tee It Up to Cure Leukemia, are critically important to help pave the way to finding those treatments, cures, and maybe even vaccines.
It is my deepest wish that you never sit in some medical office and hear the words that feel like a death sentence. I hope cancer spares your loved ones and your friends. But chances are though one day you’ll be part of this war in some form or capacity.
Today, our battle is against leukemia and lymphoma. I ask you to step up and join this battle with a generous donation. Donations made now in the pursuit of finding treatments and cures is much better than memorials after you or that loved one has passed.
Cancer doesn’t rest and neither should you.
Thank you for supporting Jana’s cause and helping to find cures and prevention of Leukemia and Lymphoma.
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