To my friends and family, the doctors and staff who will treat and the onlookers who will only know this great story from afar I would like to say a few words.
In every life there are moments of great crisis. Moments that cause us to shake from our very souls and reach deep within that we might find a way to persevere. For 1000 days I have spent time trying to complete just such a feat. How do you continue when your kidneys fail? How do you have strength to continue a regiment when it is unknown whether or not in its completion you will be healed. How do you keep focus as the fellow fighters around you are called into the next life to continue their greatness. And how is it that in the greatest moment of darkness that we continue onward.
I have struggled with this as each of you have and will in your own lives for some time. And while there have been days of great seeming danger, of almost certain end and of a definite excuse to throw it all in I have this to say. I have faith in Jesus Christ. I am very conscious of an All knowing, All Loving and ALL Powerful God that is not only aware of my struggle and yours but is wanting for nothing but Greatness for each of us. We each must come to a place within that we can trust. From this moment onward in my treatment there is no option for anything less than complete confidence in His plan, in His great wisdom and in His Great Love and Compassion. I am so grateful for all of the blessings that he has seen to give to me. Throughout every day of this journey I have seen the Savior in his great warmth around me. He has given me so much that while there will be days that I will shake with pain, that I will not understand from the great darkness that chemo affords hwo I can even think to press forward, I know he will carry me.
For all who read this and wish to be a part of this journey I say Have Faith. Listen to his Love and Fear not for Our God is Great. All of you must know there is no Loss in this. There is no day no tear, no drop of blood, no dose of chemo, not the tiniest of feeling that He did not already suffer for each of us. I would wish this great battle upon no one but am greatly Honored to fight with those who are currently entrenched in battle. I am honored to share in the same great diagnosis of my fallen and one day Risen comrade Donny Querin. I pray in this war that I may demonstrate just a fraction of the GREAT FAITH AND DEVOTION HE CARRIED AND BECOME EVEN A GLIMPSE OF THE MAGNIFICENT WARRIOR HE WAS AND IS.
And I say to all of you who still fight, who will join me in this great eve when there is nothing we hold onto but faith, I say pray. I say thank God that He has given us His son, that he has given us Love. We do not go into this alone and there will be no moment too great; that His love will not be sufficient. If you have things that keep you from feeling this, you have not time to wait. In this moment of great calling there is the choice to be made. If you will join me I want you to know that in my camp to be a part YOU must believe, you Must have faith and you must trust.
Each of us must have struggle, this is my great cross to bear. Do not have sorrow for me but joy. Know that even through the tears that fall now, I know that I will only be blessed in this great endeavor. And I want also to say how grateful I am to each of you, for each of you and for the example you are to me in your own ways. I have made it here through this 1000 days not by my own strength but by the faith and help of those of you around me. You have prayed for me, held me and guided me through. And so I ask again in this great hour of preparation. As I go into battle forget me not. Forget not the fallen that have gone before and stay with me as I fight. There will be great need for support for not just myself but I pray you will keep in mind those so near and dear to me. Please keep my family in your prayers. There will be great weight carried by them in so many ways. Financially the burden will be great, and so will the emotional support required. And to my friends – thank you, whether you held me through the last great battle or in prep for this one, you are a part of my soul. I love each of you and know that even in this difficult moment, I am a blessed man. Have faith.
And I want to give a special thanks to my beloved, my beautiful Anna, who even now is serving our Great Lord in Germany. I am honored that she would love me and be prepared to join me through this. Please keep her in your prayers, and hearts as in the next few weeks she returns to california. The next few years will be most taxing on her. We will need help financially and emotionally as she will be my full time caretaker through this battle. The bills will be thousands of dollars monthly and our full time occupation will be the survival of me. It is hard to ask for help knowing that I will never be able to give back what is given. But with this I know that we cannot survive without the support of each of you. And I also know that I will never be able to thank you for whatever sacrifice you can afford but know this. Every dollar given will ease the pressure and help. Every tear, hour of prayer, phone call, time spent talking with me, will be used by me to survive. I will not be able to give thanks but know that my fighting is my gratitude that as I lay in the shadow of death the love given will be my fuel.
And in case you really are joining this battle for the first time there is something you must know. My name is Chad and I am a SURVIVOR. Depression has not stopped me. A broken back did not slow me down. A father leaving did not dishearten. 3 years of chemotherapy did not kill me. And the hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills has only left me begging the question. Is all you got? 3 years ago I stared this journey. Cancer has not knocked Once, it has not Knocked Twice, it has knocked Three times and in this I have this to say.
Cancer Know your place. Know that My God is great. Know that I will Win I will NEVER SURRENDER, and my body may wither it may be ravished, BUT MY SOUL WILL CONTINUE TO SHINE. My name is Chad Hickey I am the Son of a King. Have Heart and know :
C is STILL for Chad Not Cancer.


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