{"id":996,"date":"2018-06-09T21:03:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swing4cancer.org\/?p=996"},"modified":"2022-11-02T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T23:07:07","slug":"when-life-hits-you-in-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swing4cancer.org\/when-life-hits-you-in-the-face\/","title":{"rendered":"When life hits you in the face"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2><strong>When life hits you in the face.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We have all been taught to serve and give, but sometimes you get hit in the face with reality.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 6 months later that same year, Bryan was diagnosed with colon-rectal cancer.\u00a0 His was stage 4.\u00a0 How could this be?\u00a0 Tests and more tests to confirm.\u00a0 The answers were all the same.\u00a0 Chemo, radiation, more chemo, and surgery.\u00a0 How do you work and support a family when you lay in a hospital bed for 14 straight days?<br \/>\nPeople and kindness came out of the woodwork.\u00a0 I will never forget going to pay my city bill only to find out that my cousin had paid it.\u00a0 I never would have thought of that.\u00a0 People came to clean my house, brought us food, paid our utility bills and many other random acts of kindness were giving to us.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, our amazing children went into action.\u00a0 They decided to host\u00a0a dinner to raise money for us.\u00a0 That was very humbling.\u00a0 Less than a year after the 5k run fundraiser, the dinner was held.\u00a0 This time well over 100 people came.\u00a0 The love and support were as important as the donations that were given.<\/p>\n<p>6 months more of chemo and another surgery, and WALA cancer free.\u00a0 Life goes back to normal.\u00a0 Well, at least that\u2019s what the doctor tells us.<\/p>\n<p>Not \u2013 how can you ever be the same?\u00a0 You are changed in more ways that you can describe.\u00a0 Hopefully, it is like the song says, \u201cchanged for the better\u201d.\u00a0 The best change came from seeing the kindness in others.<\/p>\n<p>That is when the first thought of starting a foundation, to help families having been affected by cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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