Hi, I’m Josh. My father and father-in-law have had lymphoma; the latter survived, the former didn’t. And my mother-in-law suffered the equivalent of stage-four ovarian cancer. She’s hit the five-year remission mark. Learning to help her helped me help my father later.

So the big C’s not on my radar right now, lucky for me. But I feel I have to be ready for any next round. So I joined to learn from others, especially without the God nonsense despite the scariness of it all.

I myself am terrified of death. And chronic minor gut aches, after my own noncancer illness, remains me daily that my father’s side of the family usually doesn’t live past their fifties thanks to intestinal cancer. I am 53.