Life with Cancer

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  • 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…

              • 3.73 Hallelujah!

                  The lab results from my Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test on July 30, 2025, was down to 3.73.  On September 4, 2024, it was 5.38.  On March 27, 2025, it was 4.18, and yesterday, Wednesday…

                • What & When

                    What do you do and when do you do it when you are diagnosed with cancer or any disease? First, stop and evaluate your lifestyle. What have you done to get you to where…

                  • Rejecting paradigms

                      My adjunct differential equations professor asked the same question every class session, “What is the purpose of a corporation?”  He was getting transitioned out/laid off as the oil company, where he was the head…