Overcoming Life's Challenges: A Father's Fight Against Cancer

My first surgical appointment with the liver surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering the surgeon told me I needed to have hope. This is when the choose hope became a running theme in my cancer experience. On top choosing hope I was also told by a provider at Roswell Cancer Center I needed to have faith. When you combine these two things along with a stoic attitude you can go a long ways.

Through this journey I have learned there are only so many things that I can control. Trust me this is something I have a very hard time accepting at times. The one phrase that I keep getting told though is to have hope. Have hope and faith that I will be brought through this. Have hope and trust that my surgeons know what they are doing and are going to do all they can do to get through to the other side. The end of the day they aren’t going to recommend a surgery that is not going to work. The end of the day there is nothing else I can do other than have hope.

Throughout this journey I have been told countless time that I need to have a positive attitude and outlook. That being positive is and engaging my body to fight is what is going to help me through this. So, choosing to hope and doing this is what I am doing.