Hello, friends and family. I'm writing today with some difficult news. This past Wednesday I was diagnosed with Squamous Cell Carcinoma. I woke up earlier this month with a sore throat. After about a week my sore throat was still there and started to fill a small lump on the left side of my neck. I went to the dr and was told it was probably a viral infection, as people around the area had been complaining of a sore throat. I took medicine for a week, and nothing changed, I was then treated for a bacterial infection for another 5 days and with still no change after that, my dr became "very concerned" I was then sent to an ENT(Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialist) He did some tests and took some pictures of my throat and saw some white patches on my tonsils. He scrapped some tissue off my tonsils and sent away for testing. I went and got a CT scan and after a week I went back to the dr and was told there was cancer cells on my tonsils, on some lymph nodes in my neck and part of my tongue. This news has been incredibly challenging for our family. We will stay strong through this, and I intend on showing this terrible disease that it messed with the wrong dude! I am asking for any and all prayers to help me through this hopefully not to long of a journey. There is also a financial burden that comes along with cancer treatments. This is part on the reason i started this page, for prayers and to help with expenses that my health insurance will not cover completely. I have another CT scan on Oct 2 which the first one i did was not covered completely by my insurance and this will also require money out of pocket. All medications will not be covered, and I am going to miss a significant amount of work while doing my treatments and also having surgery at some point. I also have another appt on Thursday in Atlanta as one dr thinks i need radiation every day for 6 weeks with added chemo and then surgery, while this dr on Thursday may want to do surgery first then chemo and radiation. It sure has been a hard last month to say the least. It certainly makes you think when you go to bed fine one day and a month later you are about to begin a fight for your life. Any donation, no matter the size will make a huge difference and also allow me to focus on my health and recovery as quickly as possible. If you are unable to donate, please consider sharing this post to help us reach more people. Thank you all for your love, support, generosity and mostly your prayers as I need them more than anything right now!