He just comes in and tells me. You have a lymphoma cancer ­ Hodgkin's. Then everything started running through my mind. It was totally unexpected. I thought I was going to die. I don't do anything to harm myself. The first thing I wondered is why me?

It's not going to help if you just sit there and do nothing about it. I had to believe I'm going to beat this and pull through and live a normal life. Just like any sport, you just work hard at it, do everything you can and get through it.

He was one of the biggest helps to me.