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NFL Lineman Destroys A Bell While Celebrating End Of Chemotherapy

"This bell just like cancer never stood a chance."
Ron Dicker
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General Assignment Reporter, HuffPost

Houston Texans offensive lineman David Quessenberry (77), who was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, rang the bell with style to celebrate the end of his chemotherapy treatment this week.
Houston Texans offensive lineman David Quessenberry (77), who was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, rang the bell with style to celebrate the end of his chemotherapy treatment this week.
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Houston Texans offensive lineman David Quessenberry has yet to block NFL defenders while battling Non-Hodgkins lymphoma for the past three years.

But this week he took out a hospital bell.

In an Instagram he posted Thursday, Quessenberry, listed at 6-foot-5 and 306 pounds, performed the ritual of ringing a bell to celebrate the end of his chemotherapy treatment. And he broke the bell right off.

The 26-year-old used the light moment to write a serious message about how cancer shouldn’t get credit for bringing out the good in people.

“This bell just like cancer never stood a chance,” he concluded in a postscript.

cancer did NOT make me strong. cancer did NOT make my family strong. cancer did NOT galvanize my community. cancer did NOT bring rival team Head Coaches and players together to support me. cancer did NOT bring people together. cancer did NOT make people travel hundreds of miles to help me and my family in our time of need. cancer did NOT make people pray for me. cancer did NOT bring me my Angel. cancer did NOT make me thankful for my life. cancer did NOT make me a believer that there is more to this world than just our eyes can see. cancer did NOT shape me into the man I am today. Love did. It has Been more than 1000 days since my fight began. Yesterday I received my last infusion of chemo therapy. The things I have seen and the things I felt through my fight I could never forget and last night after a full day at MD Anderson I watched a video that @meeeglit put together for me. It was filled with short clips of the people I hold most dear to me that lasted for more than an hour and every second of It was absolutely incredible. I don't know what to say to every one other than Thank You, I Love you, and I will never forget you and the kindness and Love you showed me. -DQ "Love backed by Faith is unstoppable" P.S. this bell just like cancer never stood a chance...

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The Texans drafted Quessenberry out of San Jose State in 2013. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2014 after missing his rookie season because of an injury, the Houston Chronicle noted.

He’s on the Texans’ active/non-football illness list, per Bleacher Report.

“If there is anybody that can come back and play,” Texans coach Bill O’Brien told ESPN in June, “it’s David Quessenberry.”

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