By Randy Lopez/Stage IV Survivor 13 years An ice cream cone was my tipping point. At that time I was living in Florida and concerned with a new job and dealing with a recent relocation from our home in southern California. My wife and our two daughters were at “Twistee Treat” and having a nice [...]
Back when we created our “Stories” section of the website, we weren’t sure how we would get warriors to tell their story. We ended up writing a couple stories through interviews, but eventually Trish Lannon jumped on board and wrote her story for Get Your Rear in Gear. It ignited others to follow [...]
This week’s Wednesday Warrior is David McCluskey. Dave has hosted two Get Your Rear in Gear events in Des Moines and modeled in the Colon Club Colondar in 2009. For more information about David, go to www.davidsfight.org. Cancer Had It’s Hooks in Me I feel like I’ve been through a war this year. I’ve [...]
By Amy Wenzel, Get Your Rear in Gear Communications Intern Editor’s Note: Colon Cancer Awareness Month is coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean that we will stop trying to “Get Your Rear in Gear.” In her own words, Amy Wenzel, a communications intern with the Colon Cancer Coalition / Get Your Rear in [...]
Motivated. Disciplined. Living life with meaning. And taking his health into his own hands. That’s what comes across when talking with Dave Shogren who shares his experience with GYRIG of being a cancer-survivor at 43 in the first part of our interview with him and the steps he’s taken to live cancer-free. In the second [...]
In his WDEF television interview, Stage 3 colon cancer survivor, Alan Hunt candidly discusses the critical importance of early screening. Despite medical guidelines, which suggest screening by age 50 (or earlier when an individual has a family history of colon cancer), Hunt did not undergo his first colonoscopy until he was 56. It was a [...]
“I’m thinking of getting a dog!” Its Sunday morning and a tall, athletic guy in a ball cap just bumped into friend and GYRIG founder Kristin Tabor at a busy neighborhood coffee house. “Maybe a Border Terrier. Something big enough that can go running with me and can go up north . . . that’s [...]
When Matt Carrera made plans to run his first marathon, he knew he would use the opportunity to raise funds for charity. He never realized that the charity would become a personal mission. But shortly after beginning his training, Matt got unexpected news. His father was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Now, the 32 year-old runner [...]
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!
