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One day I started coughing up blood and was feeling very dizzy. I got to the hospital with a friend, which is the last thing I remember. They found the cancer in my lung, notified my family, and operated me the same day in an attempt to save my life.

About a week after I was woken up (this would then be about a month after I blacked out), an oncologist, the surgeon who performed my operation, another doctor, two nurses, and my family sat down around my bed and I was told that I had cancer.

At the time, I was not really able to understand what it meant. I knew that this day was going to be the first day I would try to eat yogurt (all my food was through my nose in a tube), and my surgeon had said a sentence, "you have to go from yogurt to steak", meaning that was all I had to worry about. So when the "you have cancer" conversation was given to me, a month after it was given to my family, all I was saying out loud was "From yogurt to steak. From yogurt to steak" (I was mostly out of the respirator at that point and had started speaking again).

It was muscle pains. felt like a burning sensation. Working out helped. getting my muscles nice warmed up by lifting weights or similar.

Another thing I had noticed was the fact that I was getting out of shape. I had started running with a friend and we completed an official run of 13.x kilometers at around the same time. We then trained for a half marathon, and I realized that even though I tried to follow his curve of getting in better running shape, I could not keep up.

So yes, I ran a half marathon with a giant tumor in my lung. I was close to giving up after 15 kilometers, but after eating and walking some, I completed the race. about 3 months later I ended up at the hospital.

People often ask me something like "So did you get any tattoos or something after those crazy things?", and I mostly answer something like "you know, I have 5 scars on my body from last year, I think thats enough"..... buuuuut.... I hereby make a sweeping statement. I will get that tattoo mr. or miss L147. I promise and I will take a picture of it and make sure to somehow send it to you.

They have no idea about for how long I had cancer before they found it. I had symptoms that we can track at least 8 months earlier, which was also pains caused by the tumor. So I had a sizable tumor then. Who knows how many months (years?!) I have had cancer?

I was out for 3 weeks before they successfully woke me up.

The only signs of illness were muscle pains in my back (which later showed to be caused by the growing tumor), but I had no idea I had cancer. I just collapsed one day and were helped to the hospital where I blacked out.