Country singer Nat Myers said that he's living "in between the hurt" in a heartfelt social media post regarding his battle with Stage 4 cancer.
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"Lately my sickbed ain't been kind to me,"
Myers wrote on Facebook. "I been riding my pain like a bull leaper, but when I try to duck, it catches me low, when I try to jump it knows how high. Pain surrounds me like a circle round the sun. I can do bout nothing but take it. When pain is constant, you have to ride it like a swell. And try to get to livin in between the hurt."So I continue to heal, too slow for my preference, but heal all the same, scheming like the young artist in my loneliness, exile, and cunning," he continued. "My birthday is the day after Black Friday. Turning 36. I was born in the year of the horse. Beneath the stars of the centaur sign. Life was always gonna be movin fast for me."
Country Singer Speaks Candidly About Cancer Battle
Myers, 35, previously announced via social media that he was diagnosed with Stage 4 sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.
In July, the blues and country singer revealed that the cancer in his lungs had grown.
"I got some news I wasn't looking forward to but is always around the bend with what I'm fighting,"Myers wrote on Instagram. "Scans didn't come back good. Not terrible, but not good. Some of the cancer in my lungs has grown. Not a lot, but enough to be noticed in the scans. That's the thing with cancer and treatment: on a moment's notice, a plan's got to be reevaluated, a new route has to be sought. Radiation, a combo chemo, immunotherapy, surgery, it's all up in the air again.
"But it looks like the old days (crazy to think they're 'the old days' to me) are rearing their ugly head," he continued. "I continue to defy the current, and swim against the breakers. One day I'll get sunk, but hopefully not no time soon."
Myers is famous for his song "Duck N' Dodge" and briefly returned to the stage this summer before his health waned.
