(8/11) “A few days after the surgery G started talking. The...

(8/11) “A few days after the surgery G started talking. The whole left side of her body was paralyzed, but she was talking. And I’m pretty sure that’s the first time I ever cried in front of her. The doctors did an MRI on her brain to see if the cancer was back. When they showed me the results, the first thing I said was: ‘Don’t tell G. Let me be there when you tell her.’ We scheduled a meeting for 10:30 the next morning. I woke up early and went to the gym. I knew that if we were going to do this all over again, I was gonna have to be juiced. More juiced than her. I spent an hour on the elliptical. I listened to some 90’s hip hop. And I’m actually feeling pretty good. We beat cancer ten years ago, we can do it one more time. G can’t walk anymore, so that’s going to suck. But we got this. G and Ant. Ant and G. I walked into the meeting with a smile on my face. But the doctors weren’t smiling back. Their faces were different. And I knew right away that something was up. There was a new doctor in the room that I’d never seen before, and he speaks first. This guy sounds exactly like Christopher Walken. That’s how slow he’s talking. The first thing he says is: ‘We’ve discovered a very rare form of brain cancer.’ Then he pauses. At this point my heart is racing a million miles per hour, but Christopher Walken is taking his time. Then he says the one line I’ll never forget: ‘It’s very, very serious.’ G says: ‘How serious? Has anybody ever beat it?’ And he says no. That’s when I realized this wasn’t going to be like ten years ago. I ran out of the room. I’m crying my eyes out. I said: ‘What’s the life expectancy?’ And they told me nine months. That’s when I punched the wall. I’m not much of a wall puncher, but I punched the wall. The nurses were trying to hold me up. Then our main doctor came out. She’d been with us forever. She said: “What are you doing Anthony?’ Get back in there. Get back in there and be with her. So I did. I ran back in the room. I’m hysterical. I’m crying like a baby. I’m like: ‘Don’t worry G, we got this.’ And G is just chillin’. She’s like: ‘Ant, go get me lunch.’ I’m like: ‘G, I’ll never leave your side.’ And she’s like: ‘Ant, please. Lunch.’”