Fans of country and blues singer Nat Myers are sending love his way after he took to social media to remember the start of his battle against incurable cancer while also revealing a disturbing social media comment that was directed at him.
“A year ago today I went into a hospital and nearly never got out,”he wrote on Instagram alongside a carousel of photos and videos. “I learned something had been tryna kill me, but it ain’t trying hard enough. I stood at the doorway of death, and became a brother of Lazarus, and a servant of Janus, the two-headed god of beginnings, ends, transitions, and time. The Lord delivered me I have no doubt. He made me see both the curses and the blessings. I continue to chase the ungraspable phantom of life and shall for some time.
“I read a comment that said they hope the cancer takes me already, and that I’m the worst thing that happened to blues music since shit gone electric,” he added. “I’m sad to say I won’t be headed nowhere. Every moment I learn to live again. It’s nice knowing there are people praying on my downfall, cuz I have an army prayin otherwise. We’ll see how my heart weighs against the feather one day, but not today, and not tomorrow.”
Myers than wrapped it up.
“My love is infinite for my friends, for the music, and the family that brought me up here,” he wrote. “I have tasted many medicines, but there is none more powerful. Persist, endure, and thrive. And find you some good nurses and doctors. I can attest they can save a lost cause.”
Fans were quick to show their support.
“You are the strongest man I have ever known in this life, a huge inspiration on many levels,” one person replied. “I love you Nat Myers keep kicking ass and playing that good good music. Love Miah.”
“Negative and Nat don’t even go together so that guy must of thought you were someone else brotha,” another wrote. “Much love mane, always.”
“Don’t pay no mind to miserable people with big, obnoxious and unwarranted voices that hide behind a phone,” another wrote. “You are a living legend, who is thriving, creating and delivering the good message, with amazing music that uplifts us all. Your community admires you and adores you. Keep on Keepin on!”
There were plenty more comments like that and you can see them all as well as Myers’ post here.
The 35-year-old Myers had a brutal 2025, but he closed the year with an inspiring message that he shared on the platform.
“25 you nearly got me,” he wrote. “You may have taken my daddy but you didn’t get to take poor me. 25 it was because of you I learned how much I’s loved. I began wanting to be known for my enemies, but I leave wanting to be known for my family and friends. I always death was born with dead-aim, but I learned even he miss his mark some days. I thought I was strong, but learned my strength came from so many doctors & nurses, the ten thousand hands I shook since I got my chance, the bread that been broken for me, since I first started playin.
“This good village that gave me back my life & have asked noting in return,” he continued. “My fingernails growing brittle as chalk, my braids falling out one by one – still I’m blessed to play my songs. 25, when I hobbled out my sick bed after bein told I would never walk out again, I knew I was a brother of Lazarus, I knew I was born again. You taught me the blessing and the curse, the poisons and the cures. ‘m a long shot that got to come home, starin into the eyes of death as death stared back at me. I knew completely, truly what blues is.
“Round 40 infusions since February,” he wrote. “I’ve honestly lost track.”
He added that he was “given less than a week, that I wouldn’t see March, let alone 2026, but now I won’t settle for nothin short of 2066.”
He went on to thank everyone “for standing in my corner even though all our time is hard nowadays.”
“I have seen the woods lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep,” he wrote. “Keep on goin, it get better.”
Myers announced his cancer diagnosis back in February of 2025.
“As many of you all know I have been laid low by a rare cancer called a sarcoma,” he wrote on Instagram. “What I thought was a prolonged lung infection turned out to be much more sinister, with growth around my heart and pulmonary artery.
“Doctors of varying humanity have given me days, or weeks to live, but I live by my odds and not theirs,” he added. “I am currently looking for the next opportunities to overcome this cool deck of cards I’ve been dealt. I’ve been taken off most my IV’s and gotten off a lot of the drugs they had me on.
“I’m feeling better than I have since I entered this facility and am hoping to continue my next step into recovery and my future as a survivor,” he added. “I am taking things day by day and conserving and building the energy I need to overcome this affliction. I refuse to speak from the past past tense, because there is beauty and life in the struggle I am currently fighting, and I will overcome this. My next quest is to access/gain contact with as many cancer facilities to access more proper care for what I need to succeed over this cancer. I do not know how long this fight will take, but I know so long as my heart beats I will overcome this.” Myers said he got a second opinion form Memorial Sloan Kettering which provided better news.
“Because my tumors appear to be responding to the chemo, they want me to keep the course as it is with OSU,” he said. “But they said that as trials present themselves, & as the tumors shrink, isolated therapies & more options, are already in their pipeline, & part of the plan they are mapping out for me.”