uring the radiation treatments he remembers laying face down in a body mold made of plastic foam. Doctors would mark the spots that would be radiated with markers.

"It used to tickle so much when they would draw on my back with markers," he says. "I would laugh so hard it would take them twice as long."

After he was marked, a machine would shoot radiation to the marked areas. During the treatments he would smell weird scents and see different colors because the radiation would hit his brain stem -- a key location for many nerve functions.

Wes endured eight months of these treatments.

"I had good days and bad days," he says. "I just had to take it one day at a time."

He had to have a port put in his chest where they would inject the chemicals into his body. The scar is still visible.

During the treatment the scent of the chemicals would escape through his pores, and he could smell it until it left his system.

“It smelled like a mixture of chlorine, bleach and sweat, but dirtier.”

He would lay in bed for three to five days with flu-like symptoms, only three times worse.

"The hardest part was the physical stuff," he says. "It was hell. What can I say?">>>