Gregg Arthur Kurtz

Staring at the Sun—My Cancer Story

When someone tells you it’s likely you have cancer I don’t think there’s much that can really prepare you for such news. Everything you’ve probably read or seen on TV, all those stories about the floor giving way, things going blurry, it not feeling real and being like a bad dream may sound cliché, but as I found out pretty quickly with cancer, all the clichés usually ring true. But there’s another side to it as well, and this is something else I learned very quickly; just like us, each cancer is different, and each of us reacts to it in a different way. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution. So yes, the floor did give way and it was completely surreal to be given the news, but, and I guess this is the main reason for me wanting to tell the story of my illness; I knew something good was happening to me as well.