Jace Yawnick
Appearances
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
Yeah, it's, I, I posted so much of the raw truth of what this looks like, but I wasn't able to grab a camera in every moment and grab my phone. And I had some really dark,
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And I've talked about that in a few videos I've posted, but there are days where I was getting chemo and I was so weak and my dad's standing there with me and he's watching his son get another chemo bag hooked up and he's staring and he's just wondering, how can I take care of my son right now? What can I do? you know, to see my dad in that spot where he wants to do everything.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
He wants to take this away from me. You know, he wants nothing more than for me to be better. Um, and for him to not be able to do anything and for everybody to be so weak, those are some dark times. Those are some dark moments and you, all you can do is just do your best. That's it. You could just do your best in that moment.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And you hug people that you love and you thank the doctors and you thank the nurses that are there who are saving your life every moment and asking for nothing in return. And you just you try to create this fortification mentally around yourself where it's how can I be honest and truthful to myself and those around me? And then also, how can I make sure that I'm being strong for myself?
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And I just, those were the moments that I embraced, but everything from those moments to there were times where I was at home and it was just me and my girlfriend and I'd be in the bathroom and the chemo is making me sick and I'm throwing up and I have no energy and she's having to pick me up. off the ground, right.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
You know, this woman that I love and, you know, helped me back to bed and I can't, I can't get back into bed. So, you know, getting, we had to get a stool so that we could step up on the stool and get it, climb into bed. And it's, it was hard. I don't have all the words for it, but you know, there were, there were hard times, but there were, there were beautiful times too.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
First and foremost, I'm lucky. I have so many friends and family close to me that are there for me and not just there for me mentally, but physically are close by. My parents or my mom lives only 30 minutes away. My girlfriend lives with me. All my friends live in the area. So I'm lucky to have had such a tremendous support system.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And I can recall my oncologist after he diagnosed me said, are you close by to family? Because if you're not, you need to move wherever they are right away. And it was true because you can't take this stuff on alone. So to answer your question, first thing that I need to give credit to are the people around me. They helped to quiet the other thoughts I was having.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
They helped to distract me from the pain. They helped to distract me from those thoughts that I didn't want to have. And in the moments where they weren't around and those thoughts were seeking in, you know, Fear for my mortality and what's next and what if this comes back even after you beat it and all these what ifs. I leaned on the things that I loved. I love music.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I have a big record collection. So I'd put on some music or I'd play some guitar. And outside of that, it was actually verbally speaking out loud what I wanted my mind to think.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
So in the really hard moments, I would go in my bathroom and I'd look in the mirror at myself and I would say, you are strong, you are beating cancer, you've beaten cancer already, you're gonna make it, you're happy, it's okay what you're going through and just continue to say these kind of affirmations. And I did this every day for six, seven months and I still do them.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I mean, it made a notable impact on my mental health. And in those moments where I wanted to think about those other thoughts, I just, boom, went right into that habit, went right into speaking those affirmations.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
In some cases, I mean, I shouldn't say trial by fire, but I was overwhelmed. That is the word. You immediately go, I'm a I'm a former and probably still I'm, I'm a hypochondriac to the core and kind of runs in my family. So I've learned the lessons before with, uh, I like how you said it, Dr. Google. where you're going online and typing in, what does this mean?
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And that's what I was doing before my diagnosis. They had just found the mediastinal masses. I had never heard the word mediastinal. I don't even know if I'm pronouncing it correctly.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
You're pretty good. Okay. All right. You're right on.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
Yeah, right here. So they identified. Yeah, right. And I had to go to Google to figure that out.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I started going to Google, looking up mediastinal shadows or masses, and you get all this information. What does this mean? Here's a few links here. And something that I've become aware of and through this experience is there is an enormous amount of information available on the internet, which we all know.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
But figuring out what's credible and what's not credible can be a harder task for somebody who doesn't know what they're looking for and where they're looking. So I learned really early on that looking stuff up online was
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
not helpful and even if it was the correct information it wasn't going to tell me the true diagnosis it wasn't going to tell me the things that my oncologist and the other people that were doing the tests on my biopsy and all that the information they had the internet was never going to give that to me so i learned really early to just not look up anything online maybe here and there i'd lightly research something if i didn't understand a term that my doctor had given to me
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
but i i adapted into this habit of just relying on the team that i had and i had a phenomenal team i had a few doctors working with me i had my family who you know would help me on the mental health side of things and that was my core team and that's who i relied on and i I avoided going to Google whenever I could because you just don't know what you're going to get.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And more often than not, even if it gives you the correct answer, and I'm putting that in air quotes if you're listening, it's not going to be necessarily the answer that the credible person that you need to talk to would tell you.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I first and foremost went and I had some habits that I wasn't a fan of even prior to being diagnosed with cancer. I was eating some foods that I know you would not be approving of.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
No, I wasn't drinking soda, but I did enjoy some of maybe the more processed deli meats from time to time in a sandwich. I don't know. But even some, I mean, candies I was having every now and again. But other than that, I was relatively healthier. I really would focus on eating USDA organic and non-GMO project verified foods. So that's where I really leaned to.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I mean, I went to the max on that side. I would only shop and purchase foods with, you know, healthier ingredients. And I didn't even just trust the label necessarily. I would actually look at the ingredients on the back and see what was in it. Um, is there added sugars or are there natural sugars and.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
just being really careful about what I put into my body because I knew my body was fighting the fight of its life, being pumped, filled with chemotherapy, which was destroying a lot of everything in there, including the cancer. And so I wanted to make sure that I was giving it the nutrients it needed, but also not limiting the amount of food I was consuming. I've read different things, but
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
To put it plainly, I was just trying to eat locally as much as possible. So going to farmer's market and then eating as clean as possible and then cutting out sugar also, that was a big one.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
It's funny you say that because I was shocked when my doctors, a few of them told me, I had a few different doctors all working together, which was great. And all of them had various opinions on certain things. But my main oncologist, when he talked about eating, his focus for me was eat whatever you can.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I want you to make sure that you're eating, that you have the energy that you need because your body needs nutrients. So very literally he was saying, you know, you need to eat ice cream or things like that, you know, eat those, eat those foods, eat those things. And that was a bit of a shock to me.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I mean, he wasn't saying to go crazy, but his focus was on getting me to eat as opposed to not eating. But when I would look up online and I'm curious to hear your take on, I mean, I read all these things about sugar being a fuel source for cancer and tumors.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I'm lucky to have had such a tremendous support system. And I can recall my oncologist, after he diagnosed me, said, are you close by to family? Because if you're not, you need to move wherever they are right away.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I actually had a doctor correct. I said it to him. It was actually my radiation oncologist. I shared with him, oh, that's where my softball was. I joked about it. And he said, softball. And I thought he was going to tell me it was a lot smaller. And I was like, oh, maybe it was dramatic to say something. He goes, no, it was probably closer to like a volleyball. A volleyball, yeah.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I was like, that's great.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
It was part of my healing in a huge way. Once I started to gain this following, I didn't know. It happened overnight. It happened over the course of a few weeks. It was overwhelming. I mean, it was in the middle of this intense cancer treatment. And then all of a sudden, boom, there are hundreds of thousands of people watching you. You know, there's like a pressure that kind of comes with that.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And I just knew to myself, I just was like, I'm just going to keep openly and honestly sharing this story. Because at this point, making the videos had become extremely therapeutic to me. And as we discussed before, there were all these people that were sharing their experiences as survivors.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
But on the whole other side of this, there was this community of people that were going through treatment at the same time as I was. And I had not realized that there was this whole other section of people until they started messaging me. And it became this really unique bond between cancer patients.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
Every time I'd see another cancer patient person, there was just this unspoken kind of, I know what you're going through, you know what I'm going through, we're in this together at the same time kind of mentality. And having that even through social media and messaging,
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
Yeah, it happened organically. Once I started to have this following that just kept growing as I was going through treatment, as I shared with you before, there's this one side of the group that were cancer survivors. And this group was there giving me tips and advice on how to, you know, relieve pain here and what I wish I did here and, you know, guiding me through this process.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And on the other side, there was also this community of other cancer patients going through their own cancer journey. And they would start messaging me or writing letters. And we all started interacting with as many of them as I could. And I realized I have this big platform now. I want to use this for something positive. And I, in so many scenarios through this, have realized that I'm so lucky.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And one of those areas was I have the insurance to cover a lot of my cancer bills. And that's something that I'm very fortunate to have. It's still, there was a lot of costs involved. But when you look at some of these bills, I mean, they will follow you for the rest of your life if you don't have the insurance to cover them.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And so I decided that I wanted to start a nonprofit organization for a few reasons. One was to just find ways to continue to unite this community of cancer survivors and cancer patients and people impacted by cancer, the advocates, the family members, and find a place where we can all connect and to help one another.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And we do that through, we have a Facebook group and there's educational resources that are posted and all of that. And I'm still working out how to do all of it. But fortunately, I have some people helping me. But the other side of it was also people wanted to donate to support me.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And as much as I appreciated that, I am lucky and I had a lot of it covered and I was going to figure out the rest of it. But I wanted to help the people that didn't have it. that insurance to cover their treatments, these extremely costly treatments. So that's what led me to initially create this organization.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And anybody who was looking to donate to me, I told them I would love for them to donate so that we could give it to somebody else who needs it. And we've been doing that for ever since I believe my second cycle of chemotherapy. And just been working with hospitals to identify patients that are in need of that financial assistant. And not all of them need financial assistance.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
Some of them are looking for a bone marrow transplant match. So, you know, getting it out to the community about their story and helpfully finding them a match. So it's been this growing organic kind of process, but all centered around the ideals of just helping other people with cancer.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
Yeah. I mean, there's so much that I could always continue to talk about with this journey. But the biggest thing for me has been this passion to help other people. And I say that because before cancer, I admittingly was very self-focused. I was really focused on progressing my own career and getting to this level and making this much money or something like that and getting the watch or the car.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And I had this experience that I made a video about and my dad, who's my hero, he came over to my home in Florida and he lives in Boston. And this was right before I was going to start my second cycle. And he sat down with me and said, Jace, we need to do some paperwork. And he's always been the responsible, you know, helping me to learn finances and budgeting and
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And he said, we need to go through this paperwork where we need to understand some things. I said, okay. So he asked the first question and said, in the case that you're unable to, you're unresponsive, who do you want to be in charge of your medical decisions moving forward? What do you want those medical decisions to be if you had to be put on life support? How long? All these things.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And at this point, I was a wreck. I was crying as my dad was reading to me potential outcomes of what I was about to go through.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
But that's, you know, we had to do the paperwork. And that's my dad. You know, he wants to make sure all the ducks are in a row. And it's good. It's taught me a lot. And then he moved on from that paperwork and looked at me and said, Jace, we need to write your will. And him and I, at this point, we're both... just in full tears.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And I had to look at my dad and tell him about all the stuff that I had that I wanted him to have or my mom to have. And I realized in that moment that I would, it would have given it all away just to have some more time with my dad, you know, that stuff doesn't, doesn't matter. And, uh, We finished it and we said, we're not going to need this well. We're going to be okay.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
But in that moment, I realized the importance of what truly matters. And for me, that's helping other people. You know, it's not getting the stuff. It's helping the people around me that need it. And so that's the one thing that really has stuck with me through this.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
My stepmother is a, she's a death doula with, so she frequently meets with people at the end of life and, uh, helps them, you know, through what that looks like. And she shared with me this idea midway through treatment where she said, Jace, you have to mourn the loss of your former self because the person that you will be after this experience will not be the same person.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And this was a hard concept for me to grasp at first. I was saying to myself, like, I'm Jace. I'm still Jace. I'm going to still be Jace on the other side. And there's a part of that that's true. But she was absolutely right. I become a different person. And the values that this new version of myself has are different. and what life looks to me moving forward holds those ideals.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
It's the ideas of any time I can spend time with my family, people that are still with me today, I wanna do that. I wanna make it more of a priority to spend those moments being with those people. I wanna spend more moments doing the things I love. I also wanna spend more moments maybe doing the things that aren't, you know, in my comfort zone.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I always would stretch it a little bit, but there are opportunities that we get that we're held back by, you know, with anxiety or fear or, you know, addiction to comforts that we have. And I just, somebody asked me, if you had a second shot at life, what would that look like? And he said, that's the question you should be asking yourself because you're going to get a second shot at life here.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
Well, first of all, thanks for having me. I mean, I've been a fan of you for a while. So being here, I'll try to kind of suppress my butterflies. But it's incredible to be here. So thanks for having me on and allowing me to share my story. Man, I mean, where do I begin? The whole process has been a lot to digest, and I'm not quite at the finish line yet, but I'm very close, which feels good.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And so I'm taking that and I'm going with it. And so if I can do the fun stuff, I will. And spend time with my dad and my mom and my family. Those are the new ideals that are important to me, not how can I get enough money to buy a Rolex or do all this or get my sports car. That stuff isn't there.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
Yeah, absolutely. I appreciate you so much for inviting me on and allowing me to share my story. And just as I've gone through this, finding resources, I had been following you before, but people like you and you, the fact that you're out there and sharing people ways for them to stack the odds in their favor is so important because I was perfectly healthy. And then
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
Out of nowhere, it feels like I got diagnosed with cancer and there are so many ways metabolically we can prevent it or at least stack the odds in our favor. And there are solutions that are emerging like function health, which I'm excited to look into because I was at my primary care physician and he was doing blood tests and then didn't catch cancer.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma through what I assumed would have caught it. So the more resources we have, the better. And again, thank you for having me on and for doing what you do. Of course. Well, thanks, Jason. We'll see you.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
But it really goes back to early 2023, where I started to notice sort of some fatigue that I really attribute it to just work and stress. I feel like a lot of people are stressed and everybody's working. So I just kind of had this tough it out attitude. And over the course of 2023, the symptoms got worse. What started as a light cough became an aggressive cough, so much so to the point where
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I was almost becoming sick, almost vomiting from how aggressive the cough was. And that was towards late 2023. But mix that in with I had shooting pains throughout my back and my arms, all of which very strange and all of which eventually led to me being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I honestly, it wasn't, you know, I got diagnosed and the first thought in my mind wasn't, I'm going to turn this into something great. It was... You know, I want to call my mom. I want to call my dad. And I want them to tell me that everything's going to be OK. I was terrified. And you're right. I had a great life. I still have a great life.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
And this just felt like it felt like a means to something that could be the end to my life. And it's just it was terrifying. And so it wasn't until after I talked to them and started going through the process that I really transformed this into what it is now. And it happened organically.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
I didn't say I'm going to document this journey with the intention of sharing it with the world so that I could become viral or a public figure. It was so that people that were close to me could follow the journey and hear about what I was going through every day because I wasn't able to text everybody or call everybody and give them an update on where I was at.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
It was shocking. I mean, the way it truly went was I posted initially on my personal Instagram, which just captured my close family, friends, acquaintances that I'd met over the years, high school, college.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
and when i was diagnosed i was super overwhelmed i did not know what to do so i posted that i went on my instagram and i posted i was just diagnosed with cancer i normally wouldn't share this kind of information but i need support and i just that was it just in text
The Dr. Hyman Show
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And I started to get all these people reaching out to me, some of whom had been going through cancer themselves, which was a shock to me because these are people my age. Some of them had family members that were going through cancer. And what emerged from that was every day I would get phone calls and text messages. What's the update today? How are you doing?
The Dr. Hyman Show
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And as I was tackling all of this, that became overwhelming. So I resolved to form what today is Jace Beats Cancer. And I posted it on my personal Instagram and I wrote, if you want to follow along as to my daily updates, I'm going to be posting them. I promise to be open and honest on them. And here's the account and go ahead and follow.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
So for a while, it was, you know, me and a couple hundred of my, you know, family, friends, acquaintances and, you know, people that I knew. And I remember I was in the hospital as I was getting chemo, posting the updates as I normally would. And I woke up one morning and I opened my social media apps and And there was 20,000 followers on one of them and 40,000 on Instagram. And I was blown away.
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I said to myself, I don't know what's going on here. What's happening? People want to watch this.
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What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
details of what you should be doing. Make sure you're drinking enough water. Here's something that helped me reduce bone pain that came from my white blood cell booster shot. Here's something to prevent the mouth sores that you'll get. And then there were things that were just from the heart, which were, you're going to make it. You're going to be okay.
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Or it's okay that you're upset or angry right now. Or if you need me, I'm here for you. And they would share their story. They would say, I was a stage four cancer survivor, or I was supposed to only have a year left to live, and I'm still alive 40 years later. Just the most incredible, invigorating, educational, just everything you can imagine. And I was
The Dr. Hyman Show
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I mean, it's a huge reason why I was able to have the mindset that I do just all these people willing to help each other.
The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
Yeah, it was the most incredible thing. And coming from a place where, you know, growing up, I was consuming content and a lot of the stuff out there can be negative or you see people online and they're maybe not being so nice to have so many people online.
The Dr. Hyman Show
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come to my profile and just showcase the love that people in this world have for each other was super eye-opening and a testimony to the goodness that exists. And again, just I feel was a crucial part of my recovery and me beating cancer.
The Dr. Hyman Show
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Yeah, just about six, seven months total.
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What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick
Every moment is different in its own way. But right now I'm in this, I kind of call it, I want to call it a vacation. I'm in this middle world where I just, I can't even put into words how I'm feeling mentally about what I just went through. I think about it and it makes me, I mean, I have,
The Dr. Hyman Show
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I don't know if I should call it grief, but I mean, all this time that just I spent fighting for my life and staring death in the face every day and going through procedures and spinal taps. It's a lot to digest. And every time I finish a checkpoint, a major treatment, like when I finished chemo,
The Dr. Hyman Show
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And when I just recently finished radiation, a piece of that weight is lifted off my shoulders and it's emotional and it's intense and it just feels like I'm that much closer to being finished. So right now I'm in this middle ground of, I just finished the hard stuff. I just finished, I'm done with the chemo, I'm done with the radiation.
The Dr. Hyman Show
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The fatigue is slowly getting better every day that I'm out of radiation, although it's still present. And I'm just enjoying that. And on the other side, I do have this, this anxiety where I have all these what ifs, but I try my best to pay those no, no attention. If I can, I try to steer clear of those and just focus on what I know right now and what I know today.
The Dr. Hyman Show
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And when I get to that point where I do the next PET scan and they, They tell me what I need to know. I'll process it then. But for right now, I'm just trying to enjoy the moment and being here and being present.