This is the second episode in my series where I tell the tale (in great detail) of our family’s experience with my husband, Justin and his two-year battle with cancer and how we navigated our life with two toddlers and cancer and doing life and all the things. In this episode I share more about what I’ve learned about kidney cancer and I share our earliest signs of this aggressive cancer that eventually took Justin’s life at age 39 as well as my theories on a connection between anxiety/panic disorders and increased risk of cancer. 

We found out Justin's cancer diagnosis in June 2022. He passed away in July 2024 at age 39, leaving me (his wife, partner, and friend of the previous 16 years) alone to raise our two babies who were just 3 & 1 at the time of his passing. This episode is the first in my series where I share Justin's cancer journey from diagnosis to his eventual passing 2 years later. This first episode is all about how he came to get diagnosed and the first year of treatment and coping for us as a family.