You know you are getting older when your childhood heroes get diagnosed with cancer. One of mine is Graig Nettles. Graig was the reason I played third base in Little League. His outstretched lounging catch against the Dodgers in the 1978 World Series Graig is still etched in my mind like yesterday.
Prevention and checkups are key. Graig's brother Jim advised him to get tested as it runs in their family. After the Father's Day Run Against Prostate Cancer in 2005, I was tested for prostate cancer and thankfully didn't have it. The doctor told me to come back in 2010 when I turn 40, God Willing.
Graig is going to under prostate cancer surgery on April 8 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York according to Yankees.com and ESPN 1050 AM. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.
I plan to run the NYC Marathon a fifth and final time this November, touch wood, as a member of Fred's Team raising funds for cancer research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. I will do so in honor of the living like Graig and in memory of the passed on like Doug Stern.
Posted by a somber Tank on the road to defeating cancer.