Every 2 minutes, someone in the USA is diagnosed with Cancer. Lung Cancer is the #1 killer in the United States, killing more people in comparison to prostate, breast, and stomach cancer all together.
My name is Victor Falcon and I am a 3-time lung cancer survivor with non-small cell, stage 4 cancer.
Allow me to tell you what I lived through from 2011 to today. I was diagnosed in 2011, Chemotherapy and radiation treatments, and then a removal of half of my lung and 5 ribs. When you get diagnosed, you enter a state of darkness, with so many questions and no answers. Why me? Will I survive? How will I pay my bills? How will I feed my children? Will my insurance even pay for this?
The second time, THE INFERNO by Dante Alighieri in the Divine Comedy is the closest representation of what I live. The pain INTENSITY,nausea, diarrhea, constipation, vomiting, more pain, medical exams, surgery, secondary effects of the medication, weakness, depression, nights without sleep, emergency room visits, 911 calls many times at 3am, shacking chills, and many other symptoms will be there 24/7. You will have to fight alone, slowly, friends disappear. What you enjoy doing, you will no longer be able to do and the flavors will change in your mouth. Cancer kills one person, but the entire family will suffer. You will feel like you were knocked out by Mike Tyson. Stunned by the pain and kicked in the floor. You will feel what is true misery. You will look in the mirror and not recognized who you are seeing. If you survive, you are not free because the secondary effects will stay with you, Chronic pain, nerve damage, and limitation. Your children will live with the fear and trauma they had to live with.
Staff and nurses are angels. After each chemo, which is like a round in the ring with Mike Tyson, they will lift you up. They will put you on a bench, heal you, and then you will have to stand up to fight alone. Face to face, you will fight against someone fierce, will wants nothing but to kill you and fill your family with pain. After 3 months on remission the calvary start again.
Two times I was sent home with 21 days to live. But here I am.
Thanks to God, my family, the doctors Ana Botero and Luis Raez, along with their whole staff at the Memorial Cancer Institute. I never gave up; I fought a lot to survive. A new medication and a new radiological technology let me live for the 3rd time. NEW MEDICIATION AND TECHNOLOGY recently discovered was my life jacket.
While you read this, 2 people were diagnosed with cancer. The philosopher Seneca said, "Being rich is not the person who has more, it’s the person who needs less.” PLEASE DONATE, Its very important to find new treatments. Together we will find the way to cure cancer and no one will have to suffer this hell or die. Thanks.