Coping with Cancer - MTL Magazine

Coping with Cancer - MTL Magazine

by Michael King




I was thirty-five, married with three little girls at home, and the doctor was telling me I had colon cancer. He didn’t know how far advanced it was, more testing would show that. I had no idea what the future held, how deep the valley would become. I went home and that evening my wife and I argued. She didn’t understand why I wasn’t more upset; I didn’t understand why she was so upset.



Over the next year I learned what it was to suffer, what it was to watch my body waste away, to battle depression, nausea, weakness, more depression, what it was like to feel abandoned and stranded on an island of uncertainty and fear. But I also learned to know God on a whole different level. I learned to rely on Him like I never had before.