I was diagnosed with stage IIIB rectal cancer on March 27, 2012, five days after my 43rd birthday. I was with my wife in the gastroenterologist’s office.
I had undergone a colonoscopy and was ushered awake and then taken to the doctor’s office for a private conversation about the 6 cm adenocarcinoma that he found on the wall of my rectum. I was shocked and remember little about the conversation.