This paper takes the audience on a journey of the last 2 year period in my life where I was lucky enough to gather a team of friends and professionals to assist me with the biggest fight of my life – being diagnosed with Cancer not once but twice. I talk about what it is like having a diagnosis of schizophrenia and how that impacts on my physical and mental health. I talk about human survival when you feel like nothing is going to pick you up – when paranoia and pain collide. The challenge isn’t about surviving’- its about making it through the day.