Share Your Story: Gary Burley

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