I was in the doctor’s office today getting prepared for a simple procedure that 99% percent of you will never have to get or even worry about in your life. The last time I saw this doc was a year ago where he performed the same procedure on me that he did today. The doc [...]

I guess that I am really lost in my life right now. Maybe not lost but frustrated in life. Nothing is going my way. Everything I have been planning for in my future has to be re-arranged or put on hiatus because what has been going on. I feel like nothing I do is the [...]

This is chemo!!!  Apparently this stuff is called the red liquid of death or something like that.  Now, the scary part of this is that this stuff turns your urine RED.  I am fine when it is going into my vein, but when I see my urine red is when I start to get sick [...]

One year ago, I was coming to terms with being diagnosed with this unbelievably rare form of cancer at age 24.  I had to leave my girlfriend in Thailand, leave one of my favorite places that I have ever been to, and end my job abroad.  I literally had to stop my life and now [...]

I just purchased four sets of Furthur tickets to four different shows.  A set of tickets cost about 150 bucks and all the shows are in March.  March is two months away.  Now, for the normal person two months is nothing.  That will be here in no time.  For me, I have no idea what [...]

So the last two entries I have written have been based on bad news.  I want to update everyone on what is going on in my life and what I have been dealing with, though they have been necessary, I figured I would change it up with this entry. At the hospital, I had the [...]

Shivering in the middle of the night in my bed was a sure sign of something wrong.  I was laying in bed trying to figure out the reason why I was so warm sleeping the night before and now I was shivering.  It took me about a quivering hour to realize that my head was [...]

I know that this title is corny and very cliche, but I thought it best describes the month of November for me.  November was probably the second worst month I have been through since being diagnosed with cancer.  I was feeling so good before November started, its scary how things change so quickly and how [...]

This is a post that I started writing when I finished my last treatment in the beginning of June. I did not want to delete it, so I am going to post it instead. I have been four weeks out of my last treatment.  In the past, four weeks I have been recovering from the [...]

I have read many stories about cancer patients beating cancer by doing the alternative medicine route instead of traditional medicine.  These patients start eating healthy and using other medicine to boost the immune system.  My mother and I have looked into alternative medicines for my illness.  The first thing we did was go to a [...]

I am sure most of you have heard the phrase, “I got the case of the Mondays.”  Well today Monday June 28th was a pretty awful Monday.  There are many factors that contributed to this awful Monday that I will explain.  The past week and a half I have been on a nice vacation.  It [...]

I have recently joined a Relay For Life team.  ”The American Cancer Society Relay For Life is a life-changing event that gives everyone in communities across the globe a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease,” the Relay For Life mission [...]

I first want to apologize for not keeping the blog updated during this whole process.  Someone hacked the website and deleted everything on the website.  We got it back, but some newer blog entries were deleted.  The last blog entry had pictures of what I had to go through everyday and I now do not [...]

My surgeon told me that he was going to war with the tumor once he opened me up.  Now, my body will be going to war against the cancer.  On March 16th, I will be starting my radiation and chemotherapy.  Up to this point, I have been eating healthier and taking vitamins.  I was also [...]

Along with loving Grateful Dead music, I also love drinking beer.  In college, we did not drink the best or most expensive beer, but I loved every second of it.  I love Budweiser.  Such a simple, delicious, AMERICAN beer.  That was the best part about it.  The usual beer we would “spring” for would be [...]

The title of this blog is the perfect description of what I am feeling right now.  I am sitting in between surgery and the start of my treatment.  I am nervous.  I just want to get started and start battling with this disease.  I sit here waiting not sure what is going on in my [...]

On Friday the 22nd, the doctor called and told us that surgery was scheduled for Wednesday January 27 @ 8:15.  Like the doctor said he was going to go to war with the cancer.  The surgery changed a little bit to this date.  The doctor was now going to try and preserve my facial nerve. [...]

2010 has not started out as a normal 24 year old, like myself, would like it to.  Being young you think that nothing bad can ever happen to you.  You are on top of the world. King of the Mountain.  Anytime you get sick, you play it off as you are just sick.  You might [...]