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Chris, do you attribute prayer exclusively to beating this?

What do you think?

I think it's also my's also my uh my state of mind

yeah because like i said earlier you know being in the hospital i'm like i'm not going to succumb

to this like i'm a victim or anything like that so by me being kind to everybody that came in

you know some of the nurses would come in i noticed i said are you okay you you okay? You're doing okay? They're like, yeah, I'm doing fine. You're asking me if okay. You're the one in here with cancer, you know? It was a thing of I wanted to make sure that everybody came in, was appreciated. And for me, it was like if I, if I have this attitude because I'd watch other people had cancer, and they just sit in the room watching TV like a zombie or, you know, wouldn't really talk to anybody because obviously they're suffering mentally or physically. I'm like, I'm not going to do that because if I do that, then I think I lose the battle. And then it takes me over. And when they do the chemo, I would meditate, I would sit there, okay, I would talk to all my cells, I'd close my eyes. I said, cells, listen, you got these Navy seals coming into my body. They're going to start shooting up everything, but what you've got to do is get out of the way and point to them where the cancer is and tell them, this is where the cancer is. Let them do their job. Some of you are going to die in the way but you'll be reborn later rejuvenated the cells i said but you got to let this foreign invader come in and destroy it so every time they did the infusion with the chemo going into me i would sit there and lay there and just focus on that and i tell my body i said listen there's i know the you're in my body, but you don't have permission to be there.

I said, you've done your, you know, whatever it is you're teaching me, whatever you're doing, you're doing it, but you can't stay.

You have to go.

And that was just the attitude that I had because I realized I would lose if I didn't, if I had it a different way and was fearful.

Were the doctors in shock at your recovery?

Yeah, my, yeah, absolutely.

Watching my doctor walk in and her face and, you know, in comparison, there's a friend of mine dan olson i went to college with

and i played football with he actually blocked for me because i was a running back at blois college

and when i was in the first week uh my offensive coordinator offensive line coach texted me

and he said hey dan olson has cancer too I go what I said give me

his number so gave me his number I called him up and lo and behold Dan had the same doctor

was going to the same hospital same nurses and he had the same type of cancer I had and unfortunately

he passed away in March the cancer you know he'd beat it and it came

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