One year with Cancer. Twenty to go!

Jon Acton
6 min readSep 20, 2021

One Year with Cancer complete. Twenty to go!

One year ago I had a medical procedure as part of a thirty plus year maintenance plan related to Crohn’s Disease. A flex scope was performed by my Gastroenterologist and his team of medical professionals. This “procedure” consisted of a camera traveling up my backside through the colon/intestines snapping pictures not appropriate for any form of social media. One year ago I woke up from anesthesia to my Doctor’s voice saying, “Jon, you have a tumor. I’m sorry, but you have cancer.” Still reeling from that diagnosis, just a…

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Jon Acton

Husband, Father, Former School Superintendent, National Blue Ribbon School Principal, Teacher, Coach, Author in progress