In a Dark Time … The Eye Begins to See

I nearly canceled my birthday Thursday because I’ve decided I’d prefer to become younger, not older. If I’d done that, though, then Dawn, Rich, Gavin and Lael wouldn’t have had an excuse to visit. So I decided to pretend one more time that I would really, really try to grow up. To celebrate my resolution, [...]

I was first diagnosed with cancer nearly thirty-five years ago. I had a tumor removed from my neck and, while it wasn’t cancerous, there was a small piece of thyroid attached to it that was cancerous. My first reaction to the diagnosis was, predictably, panic. I was too young to die. My children needed me. [...]

My second encounter with cancer, which took place three years ago, was terrifyingly different from my first encounter. I saw a doctor for nearly a year because of throat pain and difficulty swallowing before I was correctly diagnosed, apparently not an uncommon experience. Unfortunately, my regular doctor was on leave and I had to see [...]

I finally finished reading Prostate and Cancer by Sheldon Marks, M.D. as my physician requested. It’s a relatively easy read and answers many of the questions I had about my prostate cancer. The book begins with some rather scary statistics: More than 189,000 men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002, and more than [...]