November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month

It's Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month and I hope to do just that, raise awareness. Everyone is aware of breast cancer and it seems like everyone has combined their efforts against breast cancer and now my hope is that the world can combine those same forces to fight Pancreatic Cancer.

Pancreatic cancer has the lowest relative survival rate of all the cancers tracked by both the American Cancer Society
and the National Cancer Institute; pancreatic cancer is the only one with a five-year relative survival rate in the single digits at just six percent.

You can change that. Sign up today to be a Volunteer for Progress. Join your friends, family and neighbors to know, fight and end this deadly disease.

People need to know how deadly this terrible disease is. I honestly thought after my Dad's surgery that he would be one of those 6%. I think maybe that may be part of the reason that I'm taking this so hard. People used to tell me that I'm too negative but I've always seen myself as realistic. And this time I was staying as positive as I possibly could be only to end up with the worst possible outcome. I didn't want to admit to myself that I could lose him forever. And now that I have I guess I'm a little lost inside. I think it helps knowing that I have pretty much the same personality as him so he will always be with me, but I have wanted nothing more than to just have a conversation with him these past couple of weeks. I want to watch a Blackhawks game with him and talk hockey, or tell him that I love him.

You can be a hero in the fight again pancreatic cancer and help people everywhere know it, fight it, and end it.