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At the age of 40, I stepped away from a successful corporate sales career to build an online social selling business. This business turned into a 7 figure income after years of hard work and dedication. During this time, I survived a very rare form of cancer which left me in a colostomy for life. "It is the challenges that ...

I was diagnosed with anal cancer on 2/17/2021. I went through chemotherapy and weeks of radiation. At the time, It was the hardest thing I had ever been through. After weeks of treatment, the tumor was still there, so I had to have surgery to remove the cancer. On 1/27/22 I had Abdominal Perineal Resection surgery to remove my rectum, ...

I was 76 and taking care of my dear wife who was suffering with onset of Alzheimer's. We'd been married since 1960 and always active. My lack of adequate sleep for the past year had destroyed my immune system which resulted in bowel cancer and Ostomy surgery. To do what I could do to extend my life to continue to ...

I came home from work one evening and had a bacon roll for my tea. During the evening I started to feel sick & unwell, which I put down to a bad batch of bacon. I then made my way up to the toilet for obvious reasons. From there I went steadily downhill & my memory of what happened is ...