On Oct 9th, 2003, I was taken into the OR at St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital for emergency surgery. 6 hours later, I was in ICU without an appendix, with an ileostomy and being pumped full of antibiotics.
The tumor on my appendix had burst, perforating my bowels, which made me septic. I think there were some in the hospital that thought I would never leave alive.
Five days later we were told I had cancer. Six days after that, I left the hospital to finally go home.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
