“Unfortunately, there’s no cure for it,” Gerry noted. “So that weighs heavily in every decision I make. It was like 10 tons of concrete were just dropped on me. And I was a bit in denial for a while, I didn’t want to admit to it.”
Still, Gerry’s path to diagnosis was not a straight line. He was first recommended to an oncologist after some unusual markings appeared on his blood work at a doctor’s appointment. Gerry explained that he was initially diagnosed with a blood disorder early on, before being definitively told it was cancer in February. He told his then-wife of his diagnosis the next month.
“It was hard for me,” Gerry said, saying Theresa was “awestruck” by the news. “I wanted my life to continue on as normal as possible, and that led me to believing that as normal as possible more meant spending time with my family, my two daughters, my two son-in-laws, my granddaughters.”
