This is from a newly diagnosed man named Jeff L., who I recently met and have been corresponding with. Super guy and interesting, too. Jeff wrote that he is afraid that from now on his life will be defined by one thing -- the prostate cancer. That is to say that he will be a patient [...]
Recently I was loitering in the packaged fish section of the gourmet supermarket near my home, Fairway, when I encountered something called "Smoked Spiritual Salmon." I rolled my eyes. There are a lot of calcified hippies living in my neighborhood, so I thought I'd seen it all, but not this. Nevertheless, I needed to know [...]
I like this poem because, even though it's romantic, i.e., written by a man to a woman, I think it can be applied to other love relationships. You just need to adapt it a little -- take some poetic license, maybe? I am dedicating this poem to Manny R., a friend from one of the prostate cancer [...]
Are you smart and hardworking and obsessed with burying prostate cancer once and for all? Then this is the job for you. "Save the Males," a/k/a National The Prostate Cancer Coalition, seeks a talented fundraiser, organizer and activist. Oh dream job, where have you been?? If you are also interested, I hope you're not too [...]
Robert B. wrote in PPML about his experiences with PC doctors and our healthcare system in general. I am reposting some of his remarks because they sounded to me like "deja vu all over again." "The other thing that we have to address is how our medical system encourages docs to deal with us. As I have said [...]
Immortal So soon my body will have gone Beyond the sound and sight of men, And tho' it wakes and suffers now, Its sleep will be unbroken then; But oh, my frail immortal soul That will not sleep forevermore, A leaf borne onward by the blast, A wave that never finds the shore. Sara [...]
My Google prostate cancer news pipeline is fit to burst. What everybody is so excited about is the discovery of several new genetic variations which appear to be associated with a diagnosis of PC. I had heard that seven new abnormal gene sequences or "SNP"s, had been found . . . but now it may be up to ten. (These follow on [...]
This post was inspired by current events -- namely, Super Tuesday. When I came home today there were two recorded messages on my machine from a man who said he had been a prisoner of war alongside John McCain. Of course, he said very complimentary things. Usually, I don't want to listen to that stuff, but [...]
I have been following a discussion that's been taking place on one of the prostate cancer listservs. The title of the thread is: "No Big Deal." It is a compendium of statements that have been made to people here in response to the admission that they or their partners have prostate cancer. More often than not, these words have [...]
Stephen Jay Gould, the well-known scientist who suffered from a rare form of cancer wrote this: I asked Sir Peter Medawar, my personal scientific guru and a Nobelist in immunology, what the best prescription for success against cancer might be. 'A sanguine personality,' he replied. Will save ya a trip to the dictionary. This is [...]
