David Ingalls is winning his battle!
(with cancer if not his university loan company!)
On Jan. 1, 2004, the junior in the School of Electrical Engineering from Oolitic, Ind., found a lump on his testicle spurring a year of question before eventually being diagnosed with testicular cancer. He had major surgery and a month and a half of chemotherapy.
Now, three years later and following a clean test result this past Monday, Ingalls can look back and joke once again.
“Because it’s testicular cancer you’re either going to be really embarrassed or totally open about it,” said Ingalls. “Sometimes I’ll get to talking about it with maybe someone I work with and I’m like, ‘Yeah, I had a testicle removed,’ and they’re like, ‘Gosh!’”
Yet, it wasn’t always this light-hearted.
Trying to pay back his student loan, however, still “agitates him to this day.”