Friday, March 30, 2018

Time Froze With My Cancer Diagnosis

For seven days after my cancer was discovered the whole world stopped. This is what that looked like.


PUBLISHED March 30, 2018

Khevin Barnes is a Male Breast Cancer survivor, magician and speaker. He is currently writing, composing and producing a comedy stage musical about Male Breast Cancer Awareness. He travels wherever he is invited to speak to (and do a little magic for) men and women about breast cancer. www.BreastCancerSpeaker.com www.MaleBreastCancerSurvivor.com
Those words, “I’m sorry, but you have cancer” can never really be erased once they have been chiseled into our memories. The urgency and the permanency with which they adhere to our lives instantly create what is possibly the most traumatic shockwave that we are likely to experience.

I was alone the moment I heard my diagnosis, on the telephone, picking up my messages. As fate would have it, I was 2,500 miles away from my home, away from my wife and all that was familiar to me. I had traveled to say goodbye to my mother who, at 92 years of age, had broken her hip.



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