After two different colonoscopy's (Oct 08 & Jan 09), and the results sent to consultants with Mayo Clinic. My colon doctor called on a Friday evening (February 06, 2009) at 5:45pm on the phone and said, "Craig, you have onset of cancer and the best way to proceed is remove the whole colon and you won't be chasing bad guys any more."
I'm a high school English Teacher in the New York City Public School System. There has been a history of cancer in my family. My grandfather had an intestinal cancer- we assume it was colon cancer. He died young, when my father was 18. My father was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2001. His tumor was removed and he is currently cancer free!
I was born in Hays, Kansas and moved to Austin, Texas when I was 20 years old. I have lived in Austin for 28 years. I manage a doctors office and love what I do. I have two beautiful daughters and a wonderful supportive husband. My hobbies are riding my horse and reading.
Last summer, I was watching my son's baseball game and found myself up against a fence with my husband and a couple of other fathers. One dad started talking about a young father we all knew named Dave Shogren. Dave had been recently diagnosed with stage III rectal cancer in June of 2009...
It was March of 2008 and I was busy preparing for the release of my first novel in June. As is the case with any writer who has spent months, even years, finishing a novel, “shopping it” to agents and editors, dealing with rejections and self-doubt and a steadily declining will-power, these were exciting days, a regular dream-turned-reality.
I am Natalie and a student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I am studying to become a nurse and specialize in Pediatric Oncology.
At 26 the farthest thing from my mind was colon cancer. Now, at age 28, it is all I can think about.
I was diagnosed when a tumor in my ascending colon, near my appendix, ruptured one night. I thought it was my appendix and my friend Jenn drove me to the hospital. She left around midnight thinking I would be having a laparoscopic appendectomy. That's what I thought too.
I went in for my routine colonoscopy at age 50, it was fine. I was told that I did not need to be seen again for another five to ten year years. 18 months later, I was having a section of my colon removed because of a cancerous tumor!
When I hear the phrase “into each life some rain must fall,” I think of the joy that comes with rain, not the rain that wrecks a moment or day. So, when I say, “Into each life, some Barb Rosen must fall,” I refer to a privileged experience. For one afternoon, my soul opened up [...]
