Opinions and Thoughts of LightHouse Dann Verner - Just as he is!

  One of Cancer’s Many Faces Man O man, I looked like I felt back then. Worse part is that it got a lot worse since this picture was taken. This was taken at the beginning of my battle. I honestly do not know how I survived through all I have endured these past 5 and a half years. And the battle rages on! I am still battling the cancer. I am a realist. It is what it is.  Simple as that. Yet, I feel that it is better I fight this battle, rather than some poor soul who could not handle the stress. The penance I pay for the transgressions and tribulations of my youth. I will lay down for no man or situation. I stand tall with my beliefs. I stay true to myself and speak only the truth to my fellow man. After all  ………………….. I am ‘The Original Urban Viking”. And ………………………….. My time is not yet

  Thankfully, I turn sixty-six on October the 5th. Otherwise I would be worried. Five years ago on October 22, 2018 at eleven fifteen in the morning I was diagnosed with Stage IV Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Pharyngeal Cancer. At that time they told me that I was beyond the point of conventional treatments and that the best option was to allow them to remove my tongue, larynx and part of my esophagus. Then they would use a muscle from my forearm to construct a tongue. I immediately refused. There is no way that I would allow my family and loved ones to have a vision of me as a Frankenstein as their last memory. Their last memory of me will be me smiling and telling them how much I appreciated sharing life with them. The doctors told me that I would be lucky if I survived till the end of January 2019. Eight to ten weeks. I am not one to give in to defeat. I participated in a radical radiation therapy whereas I received eighty, yes 80, rounds of Harwins Protocol radiation treatments i...