assion is the word I think about in relationship to surviving difficult situations. 10 years ago I discovered I had cancer. I discovered a small lump on my neck and I thought it was a mild infection and saw my nurse practitioner who after checking out this lump gave me the fateful expression, “Let me get another set of hands to check this out. My doctor came in and sent me off to a local ENT doctor who confirmed my lump was a fast growing cancer that had attached to my lymph node. "Yikes, I have cancer," were my immediate thoughts. On the first week of January 2004 I began going through treatment to fight this fast growing thing on my neck.
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Voglin in the 70's (above) and today (below)