From beginning to end

So as some of you that are reading this already know that I am a former cancer patient already. Back in August of 2002 I was 21 years old and freshly relocated to the city of Minneapolis. I graduated from Chippewa Valley Technical College with a degree in Heating, Air Conditioning, and Ventilation and got a job right away. I went into work one day and my chest was hurting me quite a bit so I decided to go into the hospital. While on the way to the hospital I had a heart attack. After taking a bunch of tests a tumor the size of a baseball was found on top of my lung and next to my heart. I went though 3 months worth of chemotherapy . On December 31st 2002 I was officially cleared of cancer in my body. The problem left was the tumor barely shrunk. I had multiple problems with bleeding out, infections, and a collapsed lung. April 14th 2003 I had a 50/50 surgery which was open heart style to remove the tumor which was connected to the lung and they though connected to the heart. Turns out they removed a layer of my lung and didn't have to touch my heart. Since then I have had minor issues with my health. Mainly just typical colds and flus last longer than normal.
Flash forward to May 2008. There has been a lot of pain through out my entire left shoulder and chest area. The also has been tingling pushing up and down my left arm through my fingers. So I made an appointment with my oncologist here in Madison. So after being checked out and having a physical done I was placed on vicodine for the pain. This past Friday I went in to the clinic to get a CT scan done. My last CT was done on Oct.31st 2007. So I was due for another one anyways. The CT showed a spot on my spleen that was previously there that hadn't grow any over the last few years to have doubled in size. The spot that I could feel under my arm pit didn't show to clearly but did show up. As some of you out there know that during my first surgery they took out a huge chunk of my chest so they could go right through to the tumor for my biopsy's in the future. The hole is still there and will never fill up. When I noticed the hole starting to get smaller and filling up it started to hurt and I got nervous. The CT scan showed that there is a tumor in that spot where the hole is. The tumor is also growing on top of my chest just under the skin. All in all there are three tumors. When doctor Hegeman told me the news I lost it for about 10 minutes then wanted to get to business. We have to hope that the tumors are of the germ cell variety. Germ Cell tumors are the easiest to treat and kill. Because they are spread across my innards I will be on heavy doses of chemotherapy in hopes of killing and shrinking the tumors. The heavy doses are the full body kind which will make me very sick once I start them. Depending upon how bad things are I could be having a bone marrow transplant once chemotherapy is done. From what my doctor said bone marrow transplants are very common in people who have a recurrance of cancer in their bodies. I am pretty much telling myself that I will be having that done at the end of my journey. Yesterday (June 2nd) I went into the General Surgery ward of the clinic to have what I thought was a needle biopsy on my chest. I was quite wrong they actually wanted to remove the tumor below my arm pit completely. It took an hour to have the procedure done and the tumor removed. They are having tests done to determine if it was a tumor or a cist and if it was cancerous at all. One down and two to go is all I can say about that yay! This Friday I go in to Dr. Hegeman's office and make up our plan of attack. My folks have been really cool about everything which is great. They are letting me handle everything my way and not being overbearing which I think a lot of parents get in situations like this despite their child's age. Things have been pretty good otherwise and I am ready to fight this son of a bitch. After my first surgery I was thinking of writing down my experiences during my battle with cancer. Now I have the opportunity to do so thanks to technology. I will post up hopefully everyday with whats happening and in the end hopefully writing a book that can be used to help out others in my situation.