It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief as a smart man called it there isn't even more fraud. After all with no God there's no one to ever call you to account and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends neighbors family and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us but we can always control how we react to it.