That one Sunday evening, some 20+ years ago…by Donnie Griffin

It was a normal Florida summer night, hot and muggy, and I was enjoying a game of 5 on 5 full court basketball and feeling great. Having played three years of high school basketball, enlisted in the U.S. Army where I jumped out of airplanes, just returning home as a Gulf War Veteran, I thought I was in the best shape of my life.

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Life Changing by Alex Hassett

On Feb 2nd 2014 I was struck down with severe abdominal pain on my lower right side. After being told I may have cancer I laid in a hospital bed for 5 days before finally being told I had stage 2 testicular cancer and that first thing Monday morning I will be losing my right testicle.

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Cancer Saved My Life by Ken Wlodarczyk

I have been diagnosed with testicular cancer twice. Once in May of 2009, and again in December 2012. The first time, I was numb to it. I just wanted it out. It wasn't that bad and I didn't even need chemo or radiation. I caught it in time. They told me it was an aggressive tumor and it was good that I came in when I did. But the second time was a little different.

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A Love Story. . .

Dane and I married on July 23, 2010 and on top of the world. We were best friends for 13 years prior to marriage and we were ready to start a family.

Three months after we got home from our honeymoon, Dane started having lower back pain. All visits to orthopedics, back specialists, etc. had the same diagnosis: a pinched nerve or a slipped disk. He was losing a lot of weight saying he didn't have an appetite because of the pain medication the doctor had given him.

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