Cancer Experience

It is my own philosophy that in everyone's lifetime, there is a certain event that takes place which paves the way for two different paths of either achievement or failure. It can strike at any given moment and has no sympathy for age or experience. My own experience was defined by a diagnosis of testicular cancer at the youthful age of thirteen, at a time when most my age were creating fond memories to be reminisced upon at a later point in life.
Ironically humorous, my sickness was initiated upon watching "The Tom Green Show". On this particular episode, the host himself had just gone into remission for testicular cancer and had demonstrated methods of self-checking one's own body for signs of disease. Still in the mindset as I like to call it, of a thirteen year-old whose most abundant concern was where I would be going that night, I initially paid little attention to the distraction on the television screen. Thinking about it now, the afternoon plays in my mind like the beginnin...