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In 2006 I went to a dermatologist and he cut out a growth that was in my ear. He told me it was malignant. In 2007, it came back and I was at CBCC and they cut it out again. And then I had one cut out of my right eye, just under the eye, and it was malignant but they got all that out, thank God. I come out to Relay for Life because I believe in helping out people who are cancer survivors.

They had to ride me around the survivors lap. It makes me feel astonished because of so many people that are survivors. It makes me feel great that I'm one of them. And I don't care what other people say, I think if a survivor can look around and see people in worse shape than they are in, it gives them more hope and more willingness to fight if they've still got cancer.