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‘Go Live Your Life’ – the Wade Hayes Story

By Julie Anne Jacobs
AuburnTigers.com

If you had told country music star Wade Hayes that he would be singing the National Anthem at Auburn’s A-Day, he wouldn’t have believed you.

Why? In the fall of 2011, Hayes was delivered the news that he had stage four colon cancer.

“The prognosis was not good,” Hayes says. “They weren’t giving me much of a chance to live.”

Hayes knew something was not right, though, long before the first test results were received.

“I had felt really bad for about a year or so,” Hayes says. “After some tests, I discovered there was a tumor about the size of an orange in my large intestine.