the-truth-about-cancer

The Truth About Cancer
Chris Wark: And I thought I had an ulcer. You know, I’d never had any
illness before, never had any major—the flu when I was a kid or
something but nothing major. And I thought, I don't know, is this an
ulcer Like what’s going on And I had this pain that would come and
go and it was kind of like Ground Hog Day because every morning I
would wake up and I’d immediately think like how do I feel And I’d be
like, oh, I feel good. Okay. No pain. And then I’d go throughout the day
but then I would get these twinges of pain, you know, most days and I’d
be like, oh, there is it again. And then I’d go to sleep, kind of worried
about it, and then I’d wake up and, well, no pain, right. And so that kind
of went on for many months. And I kept thinking maybe my body would
get better because my body had always healed in the past and I believe
that that body is designed to heal.
And so—but the problem was I didn’t make any changes in my life, right.
I didn’t understand cancer at the time and so I just kept living my life the
way I was living it which was in a very unhealthy way. And this pain got
worse and worse and eventually I went to a doctor and they thought I
had an ulcer and gave me some medication that didn’t help. And then
I—through a series of doctors appointments eventually ended up at a
gastroenterologist who did a colonosciopy and found a golf ball size
tumor in my large intestine. And you know, I came out of the procedure.
They had put me under and I woke up. And you know, I was still
medicated. You know, it was like where am I What’s happening And
the doctor came in and he was—he basically said, you know, we found
this tumor. You might have cancer. We have to send it to the lab. And
my wife started crying on the nurse’s shoulder and I was just like what—
what’s going on That wasn’t even…
Ty: You were at that time how old were you
Chris Wark: I was 26.
Ty: 26-years-old.
Chris Wark: And so at that moment I wasn’t even sober, you know
what I mean. So it didn’t even really make sense. It just felt like a dream
that I didn’t understand. But a couple days later I got the call from the
doctor and he said, listen, you know the lab report came back. You have
colon cancer. And so that was heavy. And you know, that’s kind of when
my life came to a grinding halt. You know they took out the tumor. They
took out a bunch of lymph nodes. The surgeon said, look, I took out
everything I could see. We got clear margins but you’re going to need to
nine to twelve months of chemotherapy. But there were a few things that
happened in the hospital that were very serendipitous that really started
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