I’m a cancer fighter, a significant other to a fantastic caregiver, a son, a father, and a soon to be grandfather. I have spent my life as an entrepreneur and a digital marketer. I’ve realized that life is a journey, a challenge, we have great times and difficult ones but sometimes those difficult ones seem almost impossible to overcome. I’ve seen people document their journey through blogs and often wondered why? Why take the time to document one’s life for others to see?

I saw the value that some people bring online perhaps sharing their business experiences or sharing their personal struggles and how they’re overcoming them. They bring inspiration and motivation to others, which in part has moved me to begin sharing my personal life online, in hopes that I can also help inspire and assist others.

My journey is one like so many others out there, one of overcoming adversity, particularly that of fighting cancer since April of 2021. It has been perhaps one of the hardest things that I have been forced to take on and let me tell you I’ve been faced with situations in my life that would give most people PTSD, not to say that I may have suffered from that as well at some point.

(Blog: I found out I had cancer!)

But my fight against cancer is one I didn’t see coming and one I can’t easily defend against, whenever I was faced with a physical confrontation, I could see my attacker. I could see if they were stronger or faster. I could see what I was up against… cancer is one I couldn’t see. It just creeped up on me and is literally trying to kill me.

You hear stories all the time of people that have and are currently facing a fight against cancer, but you never really understand the difficulty until it hits your home. That’s exactly what happened to me. I spent my entire life never spending time in a hospital, never had an operation and never had an extended stay in one. Discovering I had cancer changed my life in one instance.

My goal from this blog is threefold. First, I hope that those of you that have recently discovered you have cancer realize that you’re not alone in that battle, whether it’s family or friends or even an online community you’re not alone.

Second, I hope that caregivers are also benefited by the information I write about in this blog. Since their lives are also affected so much by this change in one’s life.

And finally, I hope to reach as many people as possible that have the desire to learn more of the effects that cancer has on people’s life and hope that those that can are able to help those people effected by cancer. It can be something as simple as providing simple words of encouragement, providing a meal, or even donating to them monetarily.

I write this preface after a six-month battle with cancer that everyone thought I had beaten but after four weeks from my last chemo treatment I had a scan that showed the cancer was still actively growing and threatening my life. I have a long journey ahead of me and I invite you all to share this experience with me and help me in #kickingcancersass.