I am a 42 year old guy living in the South Carolina lowcountry, married w/ 3 kids (well, they're pets - but we fo' sure consider them our kids) and I'm here writing about being a colon cancer patient.
that looks strange to me, that sentence...
see, I'm not exactly sure what to "call" or label myself at this stage. Patient, survivor, cancer boy...just not sure. My oncologist, Dr. Robert Wall, would be quick to point out to me, that at this time, at this exact moment in history, I am cancer-free. I like it when he says that. And it's important for me to realize it. But since it has been less than 130 days (129 to be exact) since the 4cm x 4cm tumor was cut out from my colon - I'm not ready to call myself a cancer survivor. Yet.
However, today, I do not have cancer. That's all I know or care about at this moment. I got the CT scan, the pet scan, the bloods (results of my latest blood tests) and one helluva a doctor to back me up on that.
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The occasionally coherent ramblings of a 40-something fighting Colon Cancer
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