It’s hard to go back to the day that I had to decide to be a survivor and not a victim of this disease, but I think everyone who is encountered with those words “You have cancer,” immediately decides what type of battle it’s going to be. And anyone who decides to put up a fight is a survivor. Since I served in the Marine Corps I had the mentality to be a warrior so there was no other choice but to be the warrior they had instilled in me to be.