It has been one heck of a brutal year for country music and blues singer Nat Myers as he has battled cancer and also had to deal with the loss of his father.
But the 35-year-old closed out the year with an inspiring message — written much like a song he might be working on — Tuesday on social media.
“25 you nearly got me,” he wrote. “You may have taken my daddy but you didn’t get to take poor me. 25 it was because of you I learned how much I’s loved. I began wanting to be known for my enemies, but I leave wanting to be known for my family and friends. I always death was born with dead-aim, but I learned even he miss his mark some days. I thought I was strong, but learned my strength came from so many doctors & nurses, the ten thousand hands I shook since I got my chance, the bread that been broken for me, since I first started playin.
“This good village that gave me back my life & have asked noting in return,” he continued. “My fingernails growing brittle as chalk, my braids falling out one by one – still I’m blessed to play my songs. 25, when I hobbled out my sick bed after bein told I would never walk out again, I knew I was a brother of Lazarus, I knew I was born again. You taught me the blessing and the curse, the poisons and the cures. ‘m a long shot that got to come home, starin into the eyes of death as death stared back at me. I knew completely, truly what blues is.”
Myers through in that he was getting what he believed to be his “10th round of chemo” on Tuesday.
“Round 40 infusions since February,” he wrote. “I’ve honestly lost track.”
He added that he was “given less than a week, that I wouldn’t see Mach, let alone 2026, but now I won’t settle for nothin short of 2066.”
He went on to thank everyone “for standing in my corner even though all our time is hard nowadays.”
“I have seen the woods lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep,” he wrote. “Keep on goin, it get better.”
Myers announced his cancer diagnosis back in February.
“As many of you all know I have been laid low by a rare cancer called a sarcoma,” he wrote on Instagram. “What I thought was a prolonged lung infection turned out to be much more sinister, with growth around my heart and pulmonary artery.
“Doctors of varying humanity have given me days, or weeks to live, but I live by my odds and not theirs,” he added. “I am currently looking for the next opportunities to overcome this cool deck of cards I’ve been dealt. I’ve been taken off most my IV’s and gotten off a lot of the drugs they had me on.
“I’m feeling better than I have since I entered this facility and am hoping to continue my next step into recovery and my future as a survivor,” he added. “I am taking things day by day and conserving and building the energy I need to overcome this affliction. I refuse to speak from the past past tense, because there is beauty and life in the struggle I am currently fighting, and I will overcome this. My next quest is to access/gain contact with as many cancer facilities to access more proper care for what I need to succeed over this cancer. I do not know how long this fight will take, but I know so long as my heart beats I will overcome this.”
Myers said he got a second opinion form Memorial Sloan Kettering which provided better news.
“Because my tumors appear to be responding to the chemo, they want me to keep the course as it is with OSU,” he said. “But they said that as trials present themselves, & as the tumors shrink, isolated therapies & more options, are already in their pipeline, & part of the plan they are mapping out for me.”
Myers is a country and blues musician of Korean-American descent from Northern Kentucky. He released his debut record, “Yellow Peril,” in 2023.
‘ The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties ’
‘ Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com ’
