Wednesday, September 8, 2004 was the day my life changed. No, it was not the day that I was diagnosed with colon cancer. My diagnosis actually came many months earlier. It was the day that I came out of the “cancer closet.”
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March 17, 2010. This was the day that my fight with colon cancer began. Being an Irishman from Boston I figured that I could not have picked a better day to begin my fight than on St. Patricks Day. You see, about two weeks earlier at the wonderful age of 38 I was diagnosed with colon cancer after having a colonoscopy.
It was November 2006. I was finishing up a job in Fort Worth, Texas that been acquired by a larger oil company that year moving it to Houston. I had decided not to move to Houston because I had been living in Dallas/Fort Worth area over 20 years. I felt great because of the 6 month bonus I was getting when I would walk off the job I was doing in accounting as Senior Fixed Assets Accountant. I remember getting that large check of $20,000 after taxes and thinking I was on top of the world feeling so good. Two weeks after starting a new job in Plano which I had been easily selected because of my exposure to various systems, I took a colonoscopy to examine my colon. I was 52 and had a friend take the exam and he came out without any bad report. So, I decided to do mine as well since I had never had one done before this.
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