 "Hi, I’m Rocky Valentine and I am a cancer survivor. Four years ago I was diagnosed with liver cancer.
It was … a shocking time for me and for my family. All kinds of things just …
go through your mind. You finally realize that all the small things you shouldn’t sweat. And I didn’t have a history of anyone in my family ever
having cancer…. I’m the first generation of my family to have cancer. About two
years ago, in July of 2002, I had a liver transplant. In the beginning it was
very good, but right now I’m experiencing some rejection with the liver. But
it’s just having and going through this experience and having my family with me, and having my faith with me, and having the folks here and where I work with me, has enabled me
to endure, persevere, and really live life as normal as possible, if that can
be imaginable.  I’m just so grateful for the friends that I have here. I’m so grateful for my
family, and for all the folks that have been involved in my life. It has made
me a richer person, not in the monetary sense of value, but just in life experiences. It has touched
a nerve in me. So that I hope that while I’m here, and I’m given this chance
to be on this Earth that I can do some good, and help, and just make some contribution to society. Recently I came across, in contact
with an individual at the American Cancer Society and I told them about my experience
and they have been so generous, and so good, and so kind to me. Even though the
path and the end of the path is still unknown, I am grateful for every minute, every second, every day that I am here on Earth. I can’t thank the folks enough at the American Cancer
Society, my family who I love and enjoy, and my friends who mean so much to me."
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