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March 26th 2008 is a date that will always stick out in my head as a day in my life when my life changed forever. I remember the night before, I went out with my closest friends, and we had a blast, ate some chicken wings, had some beer, and as usual had a fairly good time. We were laughing about the fact that my birthday way exactly a month from the following day, and that I was the youngest one that lived in the house we rented. After all of our fun and games ended by the bar closing, or the fact that we had run out of cash, we headed back to the house, making the 2 mile walk from on campus back to our 4 bedroom house on Roosevelt Ave.

This night felt like any other, where we had our heart to heart chats, and laughed about the events of the night. I remember lighting up a cigarette when we go to the front porch and one of my roommates staying there with me until I finished it. I feel he stayed there not only for the company, but to also tell me that smoking would kill me someday. I simply would laugh at him every time and we would talk about something else. After going back inside I followed my normal routine, showered, shaved, and finally climbed in bed. At this point everything was fine and I had no worries in the world.

About two hours after I went to sleep I awoke with a dull pain in my groin area. I really didn't think anything of it at first, but then eventually thought to myself, wait, my brother had this happen four years ago. This was immediately followed with the thought of, "what are the chances of two brothers having the same cancer?"

To my surprise when I talked to my brother he said it was in fact more likely for me to have it since he did. So first thing the next morning I went to the doctors, well 3 different doctors to figure out what exactly was going on. The first doctor told me he didn't think it was cancer, because it wasn't supposed to be painful. The second set of doctors told me otherwise, and so did everyone that I talked to that has had testicular cancer. So after having CT Scans, Ultra Sounds, and Blood Work done, I got to wait for my results for my tests. In these two hours I didn't really work myself up to the point where I was nervous. While I sat in the office I tried to keep cool and not let them know that I was upset in any way.

After taking a miniature nap I heard my name being called. I discovered that it was one of the nurses at the front desk, which once I realized that, I was now starting to feel my heart beat

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