I am trying to be well behaved, but I have to say that increasingly I am having a more difficult time controlling myself. My darling, loving wife, Wendy, says that I have to be nice and always listen to what others are saying. In theory that is great, but shouldn’t others also have to listen [...]
Remember back to when your children were young and you would sit at a table with them and help put together a puzzle. Depending upon the puzzle’s size and complexity, it could take hours of hard work; however, the time was well spent because you could bond on a common task with your children. When [...]
I had my second chemo treatment last week (Thursday) and it went so much faster with the port-a-cath (see the December 1, 2008 post “Injection Site Issues and Technology” for an explanation of a port-a-cath). As most of us who are traveling this trail will know, our veins take a regular beating from all of [...]
What is left for us once we become resistant to docetaxel (DOC) plus prednisone, which is the last FDA approved, standard of care treatment available for advanced hormone refractory prostate cancer? There has been some studies that indicate after a “vacation period” similar to what many of us do with a first line hormone blockade, [...]
Woman should not be given mammograms for the same reason that men should not have PSA tests! This is the conclusion that would be very easy to come away with after reading an article in today’s New York Times (November 25, 2008), “Study Suggests Some cancers May Go Away”, by Gina Kolata. Researchers, for many [...]
Scott Goodwin has blessed us with his third installment about his travels on chemotherapy. Scott should serve as a model for us all. He is brave, open to us all about his experiences and has figured out to how to use his friends and family to support him. I feel great!!!! It was a little [...]
Paradox of the Sun The sun can never know dark it brings its own light wherever it shines - A.O. Howell Listen to the message, it is relevant to us all and how chose to reflect our life, Posted by Joel T Nowak, MA, MSW
We all must become a self-advocate if we are to survive and prosper with advanced prostate cancer. Self-advocacy gives us a positive experience that provides a true sense of control in a time when we experience only uncertainty. Self-advocacy can be very simple. It can be as simple as asking more questions at your doctor's [...]
The recession-time job market is slim and each day some more of us are finding that we are without a job. Some of us have been forced to close down a business and our pension plans have been decimated. Mortgage payments still come due as does taxes, food and of course medical bills. Increasingly, there [...]
Mary, who writes the prostate cancer advocacy and action blog for malecare, (www.prostatecancerblog.org) wrote this comment to my post which does appear in the comments for that post. I thought that it was so thoughtful and insightful I would use it as its own post. Mary's blog is well worth checking out and may be [...]
