I was born with a condition called cystic fibrosis. It affects the body's respiratory and pancreatic functions. Due to CF, I had to have a bilateral lung transplant 8 years ago. I got my life back and became a runner and ran races regularly. Things were great!

Now, I have a new challenge, colon cancer. My doctors say that the cancer was not caused by the drugs I take each day to keep my new lungs from rejecting.

So, not only do I have to deal with being a transplant patient and the dangers that come with that, now, colon cancer, and the unpredictability of it.

I'm a good person. I've never broken a law (except speeding), I've never done anything that would be considered malicious or mean or wrong. I treat people in the way I'd want to be treated.

My mother and I co-founded a non-profit foundation that benefits children in the hospital.

So am I asking the eternal question: why me? Yes. Why me?

I just turned 26 yesterday and have lost out on lots of life to to illness.

I'm supposed to be in the prime of my life now.

I don't expect anyone to have the answer. I just need some help understanding all of this.

I ask the question why me? why me?

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Porn stars for President!

Just live your life as a good man and I'm sure that it would have been worth it in the end. I donno what I'm trying to say.

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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
 - George Carlin

In this life or next, Karma's gonna come back to you. You're going to get rewarded for all this pain in some way, just you see.

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Educators destroy your brain,
but you don't know, so why care?
Fagotto

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That certainly is the short side of the stick.  

In this life or next, Karma's gonna come back to you. You're going to get rewarded for all this pain in some way, just you see.

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Yeah, that's what I was trying to say.

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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
 - George Carlin