Share Your Story: Gary Burley

Gary Burley is a retired National Football League (NFL) veteran. And he’s been in a Superbowl. Gary is also a cancer survivor whose mission after recovery has been to pay it forward.

• 00:33: Gary Burley is a retired National Football League veteran and he's actually been in a Super Bowl.
• 02:07: One day I started noticing my knee would swell.
• 04:05: I'm thinking all right, you're going to have to find a donor.
• 06:07: I took more antibiotics and medicines than you could ever dream of.
• 08:35: I went back to the doctor to find out that I needed a kidney transplant.
• 10:18: You’re going to have to do dialysis at some point, not right now, but get all your affairs in order.
• 12:14: How can we help other people that are going through this?
• 14:10: If I hadn't gotten early detection, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you today.
• 16:14: You're so talented that you might want to consider going to college.
• 18:09: I land in the middle of the night in a town that I've never been in before.
• 20:08: He said cultivate every relationship that you possibly can because you're only going to play for so long, that’s why they call the NFL not for long.
• 23:38: What was your worst moment?
• 24:50: What was your best moment?
• 26:48: What is the one thing you wish you had known at the very beginning of your cancer journey?
• 27:42: If you could only do one thing to improve health care in the US, what would it be and why?
• 31:00: Every year there's a fight to get federal dollars for cancer and it's a struggle.
• 33:54: People just don't realize how serious cancer is until you get it.
• 34:45: Thriver Rapid Fire Questions
• 36:02: Aside from Cancer U, what is one resource you would recommend for cancer patients and caregivers?

Resources

• UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Prostart Academy
• Email Gary
• Gary on Facebook

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