Wow, Buddy! You definitely get a thumbs up for your survival and your attitude. I'm a 6-year survivor of breast cancer. My treatment took an entire year, from diagnosis and surgery through six months of chemo and six weeks of radiation. I also kept a positive attitude and never once thought about dying. While having chemotherapy, I used to visualize the drugs going into my bloodstream like little Pac Men eating up all the bad cancer cells
I've said this before: Having cancer was in many strange ways the best thing that ever happened to me!