The response to last year s column was overwhelming, and wonderful with lots of e-mails and forum postings of support and best wishes. E-mails came from people who either went through the fight or had a loved one go through the battle. But each one of those people and their loved ones were sitting in a doctor s office and heard those words, You have cancer. Just for breast cancer alone, those words are uttered once every 3 minutes. Then there is lung cancer, bone cancer, pancreatic cancer, leukemia, etc.
Cancer is the best illustration of an equal opportunity disease.
It hits men, women, the poor, the wealthy, whites, blacks, Asians, kids . As I mentioned in the article, one of the biggest fears that we had was not being able to have more children. We had fertility problems with our first child. A fertility specialist prescribed fertility drugs to help the process. I had to give my wife shots in her tush once a day for ten days for each month we used the medicine.