On 9/11/01, 20 brave firefighters from my neighborhood went to work and never returned. The photo above is of a memorial plaque posted at a firehouse a few blocks from my home. Eleven men from that company were sent to the World Trade Center and only one came home. Went by there today to pay my respects. As [...]
Recently, I responded to a complaint from a PC patient who felt that many of his friends had abandoned him after he was diagnosed with cancer. (Read the last two postings.) But there are also patients who push others away, and in my opinion, add to the stigma of cancer in the process. Here is a story about [...]
For me the silver lining in my husband's illness and also in my father's year-long hospitalization for a stroke was discovering the kindness of strangers -- now that's something I can write a book about. We tried to keep a 24-hour vigil by by Dad's bedside because the care at the hospital was so bad. [...]
A man, Jerry P., wrote in one of the PC forums how, after he'd been diagnosed with prostate cancer, some of his friends suddenly vanished. This is a common complaint. So I wrote Jerry a letter I want to share with you. And it would nice to hear of your experiences. Sometimes friends and acquaintances do [...]
Everybody has wondered at some point where in the world there cancer came from. Sir Paul Nurse, a Nobel Prize winner and head of the prestigious Rockefeller University, opines that the vast majority of cancers are random events. The only behaviors that are known to correlate with cancer are smoking and exposure to sunlight. But [...]