By Kevin Murphy

Special to NKyTribune

It started in early December. Simple lower back pain. I thought it was from failing to stretch before playing golf. I had several epidurals, but they did not work. I had an MRI in Orlando on December 31st, and the result was a few bulging disks, stenosis—the back of an older golfer.

In January, my back became far more painful, to the point where it was getting increasingly difficult to walk. A young doctor friend suggested an MRI of my pelvis and abdominal region. The results were suspect, so my orthopedic doctor and good friend Angelo Colosimo, a man with a heart of gold, ordered a CAT scan. And on February 3rd at 8:03 a.m., he told me I had late-stage, fully metastasized cancer. It was everywhere. My neck. My larynx. Four lesions/tumors on my spin

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