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ON THE TRAIL OF CANCER ONE YEAR LATER

The very beginning of my cancer blog can be found here MAY 5, 2025 (MONDAY) Got a cal from my urologist;ogist this afternoon. She plans a blue-light cystoscopy/TURBT under sedation on the 19th of this month to positively rule out/rule in urothelial cancer. This will be my third in two twenty-six months. It’s the cost of two year sof quality living, and I’d gladly suffer it. You are put to sleep, wake up, catheter out and if you can void...

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MY CANCER JOURNAL (8/2023)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2023 (C DAY +188) This morning at 8:30, I checked in for my chemotherapy treatment.  Deena was at my side as she always is.  I could not bear this trial without her presence and support. My regular nurse practitioner is on vacation, but the nurse who filled in did an excellent job herself.  I requested the technician who catheterized me last time to perform the honors once again, and today’s procedure was the least uncomfortable by far, though I felt...

Cancer Chronicles

CANCER CHRONICLES

If using a mobile phone, the landscape (i.e., horizontal) orientation of your phone provides the better experience. Welcome to my blog on bladder cancer. Looking back, I’m reminded of the title of a Grateful Dead album (“What a long strange trip it’s been”) which more or less describes my experience, now in its fifth month since I first learned I had bladder cancer. I wake up some mornings and wonder what rabbit hole I’ve fallen into? Yet, every cloud has...

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MY CANCER JOURNAL (6/2023)

SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2023 (C DAY +125) This is my cancer journal for 6/2003. I’m ten days away from meeting my urological oncologist again. After she scopes me, I may see what is on the immediate horizon. It will likely be either be surgery or more chemo. Meanwhile, Deena and I have decided to move forward with our lives, subject to what may or may not be confronting us during the last part of this year. Deena is planning to...

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MY CANCER JOURNAL (5/2023)

THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2023 (C DAY +94) Last day of chemo for a while. After my June visit with my oncologist/urologist for scoping and restaging, I will receive at least one more “maintenance” bout of chemotherapy with future scopes and bouts at three month intervals. Last night I felt fairly stressed. Not about the future, but about today. I could see myself as one of the plastic, closed markers or figures in an old fashioned board game. Depending on the...

My Journey with Cancer Part 2. Cancer cells dividing.

MY JOURNEY WITH CANCER (PT 2)

To jump to the most current post, click HERE Welcome to Part 2 of my blog post My Journey With Cancer. I’m blogging daily with no understanding of when or how my journey will end. It might be ten years from now or it may be much sooner. But then, again, does anyone know the measure of time they been apportioned on Earth? And what is time? And what happens to us when that time runs out? The reason I...

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