Shared Experiences=Scared Experiences

Our Fights Are All Different But Sometimes Similar

Since going public with my diagnosis, I’ve found that other warriors battling cancer tend to reach out to me and share their journey. I love this, as it makes me feel like maybe I’ve helped them feel a little less alone in their fight. When men reach out to me about their own experiences with testicular cancer, which they do, it hits a lot closer to home. Some are younger and were cured with a single round of chemotherapy (awesome), some are closer to my age and had complications or a more severe form of cancer (teratoma), some had the dreaded retroperitoneal dissection surgery, but until a few weeks ago…there was no one who had a remarkably similar experience as mine. Enter A Dude I Chat With On Instagram. I’m all about protecting the privacy of the people who reach out to me, so let’s call him Marvin (after not just the hilarious martian from Daffy Duck’s “Duck Dodgers” series, but the unfortunate gentleman who accidentally got his face shot in by Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction).