Jonesing For The Journey
The Blog — Real Stories, Mile by Mile
I thought my prostate problem had been fixed. My HoLEP procedure worked, the tissue removed showed no cancer, and my urinary symptoms improved. Eight years later, I was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer. The lesson wasn’t that HoLEP failed. It was that treating BPH didn’t mean I could stop paying attention to my prostate.
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Three weeks after Sue shattered her shoulder, I sat in a doctor’s office and heard the words “advanced prostate cancer.” But that diagnosis didn’t arrive in an empty room. Seven years of grief, caregiving, health crises, loss and survival had already followed us inside.
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Helping Others Find Their Way Hope is an interesting word. It can sound passive. Like something you simply wait for. I’ve come to see it differently. Hope can…
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Turning Pain Into Purpose and Impact I never planned to become a cancer advocate. I certainly never planned to build a platform around prostate cancer, caregiving and hope.…
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Adapting, Adjusting and Moving Forward Cancer didn’t just change our medical plans. It changed our life plans. Before diagnosis, Sue and I imagined retirement unfolding very differently. Travel.…
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Radiation, ADT and the Road Ahead I once believed surgery might be the chapter where cancer treatment ended. My pathology told us otherwise. With aggressive features—including disease outside…
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The Question That Changed Everything People sometimes assume Ask One More Question came from one dramatic moment. It really didn’t. It grew out of something I kept experiencing…
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Facing the Unknown and Finding Strength There is something surreal about walking into a hospital knowing that when you wake up, a part of your body will be…
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Choosing a Path Forward With Courage One of the first things you discover after a prostate cancer diagnosis is that there may not be one obvious path forward.…
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The Day Everything Changed There are moments in life when everything becomes divided into two parts: before and after. For us, cancer created that line. Before the diagnosis,…
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