Bryan Flanders thought he was going to die. He ended up teaching circus arts instead.

His story begins with a small bump on his shoulder that grew bigger and more painful. He went to a doctor who he said diagnosed it as terminal cancer.

“It was a type of cancer that the life expectancy was anywhere from about one to five years and there just wasn’t any treatment for it at the time,” his wife, Chantel recalled. At the time, they had been married for two years.

(Bryan Flanders)

“I mean they (his doctors) said that essentially that in the next couple years large chunks of your body would be cut off and until you would be done,” Bryan Flanders said.

A month later, he found out he did not have cancer and was not going to die. But the experience already had him thinking.

Flanders had be

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