Terry Tucker was diagnosed with rare form of melanoma that appeared on the bottom of the feet or the palms of the hand in early 2012. He was a high school basketball coach at that time. One day his callus broke open right below the bottom of his toe. So being a coach, he didn't think much, but after a few days, when it didn't heal, he went to his foot doctor. In the X-ray, a cyst was detected, which got removed, but pathology reports detected cancer. By that time, his cancer had metastasized to a lymph node in his groin. He was treated at the world-renowned MD Anderson Cancer centre. He had two surgeries to remove the tumour, and after he healed, he was put on a weekly injection of interferon to help keep the disease from returning. The interferon gave him flu-like symptoms. This misery went on for over 1,660 days. One thing that Terry learned during all the pain and suffering is that you have two choices. You can either succumb to the debilitating discomfort and misery or learn to embrace it and use it to make you a more robust and better human being. He chose the latter.