51 Lessons That Cancer Taught Me

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>I am not a writer. I am a reader and a student of life's challenges and life's many lessons. My cancer battle (which started in the palate area of my throat even though I was a non-tobacco user) covered 9 years 25 surgeries and 16 days in a coma where I starred death in the face. My journey also included 1 year being unable to speak 2 years being unable to eat (my nutrition came through a pec tube). I encountered surgery failure after surgery failure after surgery failure. My face was disfigured and I had scars from my face down to my ankles. I spent a small fortune on doctors surgeries and medical care. Yet through it all I never lost my faith never lost hope never lost confidence in winning my battle.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Through it all I learned many lessons. Lessons about who I was as a person lessons about my faith my determination and my values. I also learned lessons about fighting cancer. I learned that the cancer battle was about so much more than doctors surgeries radiation and chemo. I learned that cancer fights are also about mind body and spirit. I tried to capture that in this book. I am also a Cancer Survivor and my cancer journey was unique and took me to some unique places practices and experiences. It was not a stay at home and take chemo type of journey. So I also managed to tell my own story of cancer survival.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>My wife kept encouraging me to write this and after a lot of prayer I felt like God wanted me to share my message. I wrote this in hopes that it might help other people in their fight with this disease.</span></p><p></p>