Testicular Cancer
Does Cancer Ever Really Go Away?
That’s a great question. The day I was told “this looks like a malignancy” is far more memorable than the day I was told “your scans and labs are clean, and we shouldn’t need to continue treatment.” During my first visit back to the cancer center for a follow up, I was given the familiar wrist band that all patients receive.
Read More...Cancer is Cancer
Cancer is cancer. It doesn’t matter whether it’s below the belt or above the belt. The toxicity around word usage related to it is a problem. People get, and too often die, following silence and embarrassment from lack of validation either from themselves, others, or both.
Read More...My Hidden Secret
To those whom I have lost along the way, I honor you. Dwayne. Luca. Sam. Dieter. Isabella.
Anger. Pain. Resentment. Emotions of such high negative value, but the hidden side of being a Cancer Survivor.
What are the thoughts towards what it means to be a Survivor? While my story of Cancer began in February of 2020, with a radical orchiectomy (removal of testicle and surrounding tissue), I’ve known Cancer my entire life.
Read More...Where Are The Superpowers?
It all started in January of 2020 when I decided I HAD to go into Urgent Care to get my groin pain checked out. I must’ve torn a muscle, or something like that….again.
Read More...Men Have No Emotions
As a society, we’ve decided that men are not to show their feelings while women are painted as emotionally transparent. Cancer has shown me that I can’t afford to do that.
Read More...Spilling Tea with the G’s: Season 2 – Episode 5 – Being a Guy with Cancer
Our long time friend Stephen Heaviside joins the G’s to spill tea on what it is like to be a guy in support groups to talk about cancer as a young adult. Both Stephen H and Steven G go way back to the early years of CancerCon to reflect on how long they have known each other and reflect on sharing emotions as a young adult male faced with cancer.
Read More...I Am Here and You Are Not
As a cancer survivor I’ve struggled with the fact that I survived yet others who I have known and battled cancer did not. Although I’m very grateful to be alive I’ve thought to myself, “why did I survive and not them?” This poem is in honor of those who bravely fought cancer and have passed on.
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