Read to learn how Randy Herring got through testicular cancer not once, not twice, but three times.
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“ When I heard the words ‘you have cancer’ roll off his tongue, I didn’t really understand what he was saying. I don’t think I really processed it. It wasn’t until I rang my mum when I realized what I was saying. ‘Mum, I have cancer’. As soon as I said it, I started crying.”
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It was a normal Florida summer night, hot and muggy, and I was enjoying a game of 5 on 5 full court basketball and feeling great. Having played three years of high school basketball, enlisted in the U.S. Army where I jumped out of airplanes, just returning home as a Gulf War Veteran, I thought I was in the best shape of my life.
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On Feb 2nd 2014 I was struck down with severe abdominal pain on my lower right side. After being told I may have cancer I laid in a hospital bed for 5 days before finally being told I had stage 2 testicular cancer and that first thing Monday morning I will be losing my right testicle.
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On Jan 30th 2002 I found a lump on the right side. I told my wife and she called our Urologist. I went to see him the next day.
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On 04/10/2013 I was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Advanced stage germ cell and embryonic carcinoma. It first appeared as a hard lump on my left testicle.
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I am currently serving in the US Army and when I noticed that my right testicle was about twice the size of my left. I was in the United States. A doctor misdiagnosed the problem and so I went on a deployment to Afghanistan.
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This post was sent to us anonymously from a testicular cancer survivor, who speaks about the struggles he has faced after his battle with TC.
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"In July of 2011 I had discovered a lump on my left testicle. After a big push from my fiance to go to the doctor, I went and had an ultrasound done. There was indeed a mass on my left testicle. Soon after I was referred to a urologist.
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I was diagnosed with testicular cancer (Non seminoma, germ cell, embryonal carcinoma) on October 13, 2011. Lucky enough, I caught it very early at Stage 1b. I went through the orchiectomy and one round of BEP chemotherapy.
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I have been diagnosed with testicular cancer twice. Once in May of 2009, and again in December 2012. The first time, I was numb to it. I just wanted it out. It wasn't that bad and I didn't even need chemo or radiation. I caught it in time. They told me it was an aggressive tumor and it was good that I came in when I did. But the second time was a little different.
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The date itself should have been my first ominous warning. It was September 11. This of course was 11 years after the terrorist attack. A day that has now taken on an entirely different role in my mind.
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Michael Muriett first came in contact with TCAF on August 22, 2012, just two short days after losing his 19 year old son Justin to TC.
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Dane and I married on July 23, 2010 and on top of the world. We were best friends for 13 years prior to marriage and we were ready to start a family.
Three months after we got home from our honeymoon, Dane started having lower back pain. All visits to orthopedics, back specialists, etc. had the same diagnosis: a pinched nerve or a slipped disk. He was losing a lot of weight saying he didn't have an appetite because of the pain medication the doctor had given him.
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