(I wrote this early Friday morning...but had to leave...I will update everyone)

Dear Wrestling Community/Family,

I know you all haven't heard from me in a while on this website, so the following information about me may catch you off guard, rest assured...It caught me off guard and we are moving fast to get well. Here is what happend:

I went into a local free clinic for those people that don't have a lot of money do to the lack of funds/ability to work on Friday, April 2nd and was immediantly sent to the hospital on a referal for blood tests and two chest xrays when the doctor realized how swollen my lymph nodes were along with the amount of weight that I had lost in the last month and a half. (40lbs)

The following Friday my results had come back on the blood but not on the Xrays...apparently they were misplaced and sent to a doctor in Manhattan, KS (I'm seen in Junction City) and the search was on for the Xrays. Finally, earlier this week on Wednesday when I got home from visiting family in Kansas City, MO I was greeted with the messages on my phone to call the Surgical Staff at the Hospital and my clinic doctor as well on his cell phone.

They had finally got the Xrays, and in the words of the nurse the staff was very much concerned and I was booked for a 1:15 pm consultation (for Thursday) at the Medical Arts facility in the Hospital. I went in for the medical analysis at the hospital with my mom there to help give medical history...but the doctor showed us the xray and the concern was quickly pointed out with a large football length tumor growing inside of me on my heart side, and also a smaller one about the size of a raquet ball on my right side. He then told me that the diagnosis him and his colleagues have come up with is Lymphoma Cancer.

Immediantly they brought in papers and said they needed to do some more tests a.s.a.p. So this morning (Friday) I'm scheduled for a 7:45 consultation with Outpatient Surgery...after the consult I have an appointment scheduled for 8:30 am to have a neck, chest, abdomen, and pelvic CAT SCAN done. Upon the completion of that it will be back to the Outpatient Surgery area to be squeezed in to a busy schedule for a node removal from the subclavicular area on my right side.

The node will be sent to Nebraska for type diagnosis to figure out what type of Lymphoma Cancer I have. There is already talk that because of how agressive this cancer has been in such a short time...I may undergo radiation and chemo starting as early as next week sometime.

This is a scarey time for me...my emotions have been up and down since yesterday's diagnosis and request that everyone keep me in their thoughts and prayers. I told my aunt in a teary conversation that I thought about wearing my wrestling shoes to all my doc visits and treatments...that way it's a personal statement that I'm not going down without a fight.

It's easier said than done to stay positive right about now, but with the help of friends and family I'll overcome it.

Everyone take care and God Bless.


Yours in Wrestling,

The Swayz