By Ken Birt Ken Birt’s wife, Pat, was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer more than two years ago. What could have been a devastating prognosis became a journey of comfort and hope. At our engagement party on Dec. 27, 2009, we never realized the journey that our lives would take together during the following two years. In February 2009, I decided to move nearer to Pat in southeast Missouri. She had been suffering from some pain for a year or more, but all the colonoscopies showed no growths.




