Cancer Photo Sharing Time

Hey.  Jonathan's Cancer here. Jonathan is too sick to make it out of bed today, so I thought it might be a nice opportunity for me to share. Also, I know Jonathan thought these photos were in somewhat bad taste, and could be viewed as hubris, or laughing at the gods, or something weird like that. I wasn't really listening. Anyway, I thought maybe if you get to know me a little, you'll see that I'm not such a bad guy. In many ways, I'm just like you.

 

This is me, Jonathan's Cancer, at the 2010 Annual Esophageal Cancer Convention at the Anatomy Country Club. That's my uncle, Susan's Cancer. I have a feeling he's gonna beat her Keemo and kill her. He's a great guy. You can see where I get my tumor.                                                        

The Surgery

My son was born on September 23rd, 2009. Six weeks later and after about four months of chemotherapy, the doctors decided the tumor had shrunk down enough, and that it was time to go ahead with the surgery.

Chemo

I thought I knew a lot going into chemotherapy. I'd heard and read about the nausea, the loss of appetite, the hair falling out, all of it, but I really had no idea what I was getting into. Looking back, it didn't matter that much. My philosophy became, "Just do it.", "Survive." Whatever the doctors told me to do, that's what I did.

Jonathan's Story - The Beginning

JONATHAN:  Hello. My name is Jonathan. About 2 years ago, during the seventh month of my wife's pregnancy with our first child, I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Needless to say, instantly, everything in our lives changed. In a matter of seconds, we went from expecting parents to expecting one of us to die.