My name is Eric Day, and I am a two-time brain cancer survivor. I am a recent graduate from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, where I earned a degree in Organizational Communications and Leadership. During my time at Butler, I began a student organization called Stay Positive, whose story you are about to learn. The Stay Positive movement caught on, and now I am also the Founder and President of Stay Positive, a not-for-profit organization, that donates one hundred percent of its proceeds to cancer patients through help paying for treatment, scholarships, and more.
Stay Positive was founded in 2013, my second year as a student at Butler; however, its history began several years before. In 2010, and at nineteen years old, my freshman year of college at Indiana State was cut short when I was diagnosed with brain cancer just three months into classes. During my first bout with cancer, I spent 23 days in the hospital, of which, 21 I spent in a coma. I had a feeding and breathing tube and overcame a stroke that left me completely paralyzed on the left side. Despite these challenges, I re-enrolled in classes at Indiana State the following spring and returned to a normal life. The following fall, the week before finals, I learned that the cancer had relapsed. I left classes at Indiana State and moved to Jill
