Life with Cancer

Blogs

  • Cancer’s Impact

      As I continue my wellness expedition I’m impacted by cancer daily. Friends and relatives have or are fighting this dreaded disease. Some are winning, some not, and some have lost. While doing research, I…

    • Be resilient

        Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune.[1] To survive cancer, we must be resilient.  There are many steps along the way of your cancer expedition that will require you…

      • My Editorial – State of the Nation

          I have cancer but I also have a life and an opinion Stage IV Homelessness I received a poem from the mother of a missing man. She characterized his condition as “Stage 4 Homelessness.”…

        • Happy Thanksgiving

            I searched AZ Quotes for inspiration to be grateful. Here is what I found: “Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.” – Zig…

          • What Kills Cancer?

              If you or someone you love has cancer, then you have probably searched the Internet for therapies and cures.  Instantly you are targeted by the world wide web.  You might as well have painted…

            • I’m a zero!

                I had been diagnosed with an “aggressive” prostate cancer.  I learned from the Prostate Cancer Foundation research[1] that there are three well-established risk factors leading to prostate cancer:  old age, family history, and black…

              • Robotic Prostatectomy

                  Opinions are like assholes; everybody’s got one.  I see newly diagnosed individuals posting on social media cancer pages asking, what do I do now?  Then there are the accompanying comments from who knows who…

                • 14 Days abroad

                    Travel and exercise When you travel to Europe with your son, who works out daily and is a seasoned European traveler, you’d better be ready to hit the cobblestones.  Mind the gap, cabs, rented…

                  • Hallelujah . . . not so fast

                      I was overjoyed to see that my PSA had gone down . . . until the next day when I met with my second opinion urologist.  He advised that “aggressive cancer” sometimes does not…