Well, my father was 82 years old, and he was suddenly stricken, I flew back to where he was, and 17 days later, he was dead, dead with colon cancer, and so I was 50 years old, and the doctor told me, he said, you, how old are you, and I said 50, he said, you need to go get a colonoscopy, 50, every person should get a colonoscopy, so I went and got a colonoscopy, and the gastroenterologist told me, he said, everything looks clear, don't need to worry about anything, I'll see you in 10 years, I said, great, thank the lord, walked out, about nine months later, I just, and oh boy, I'm just getting old or something, and that continued, and I didn't even have a regular MD, regular primary care physician, and so I just looked in the phone book, and someone recommended this doctor, I went to him, he took some blood work, and he said, and you just need to go and take some over -the -counter iron tablets, and work out a little more, and bought these over -the -counter iron tablets, oh man, they're horrible to take, and started taking them, and started being more aggressive in my exercising, and working out, and instead of getting better, I kept getting worse, I went back to this doctor a couple more times, and he chided me, he said, you need to be more active with your working out, you're not working out enough, intensified my workouts, and I kept getting worse and worse, I began to lose weight, I had no energy, thought maybe something like cancer was wrong, I noticed my bowel movements, and there was no blood in my stools, or anything like that, or other signs, and, but after about eight months, I realized something was really wrong, because I'd gotten so weak, I couldn't even get up from the sofa, I remember one Friday evening, we were going to have dinner with a family in our church, and I'd taken a shower, and sat on the sofa, sat down on the sofa, and I couldn't get up, my wife had to help me get up, I realized something desperate was wrong, and I went to see a gastroenterologist, he called me Tuesday, and after the colonoscopy, when I woke up, the nurse was there, she had sent my wife out, and she said, I'm going to help you get dressed, which was very unusual, the doctor wants to see you in his office right now, and I said, well my wife can take me, she said, no, he has instructed me to bring you over, and I went over, and I sat down, and he walked in, and he had a long face, and I could tell that something was wrong, I said, well doctor, I can tell by the look on your face, you don't have good news for me, don't whitewash it, tell me straight, I can handle the truth, but I can't handle any half -measured statements or any falsehoods, tell me the truth, you've got colon cancer, and we need to operate immediately, this was about one o 'clock in the afternoon, he said, I've already scheduled you for surgery this coming Thursday, he said, we need to get at it now, I said, I haven't met the surgeon, he said, well he's the only man that I would let operate on my mother, and so you just trust me, and I said, okay, and just about 48 hours later, they were rolling me into the operating room, and that was on December 9th, I was diagnosed with cancer December 7th, 2004, and on December 9th, 2004, they...