Archive
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- Welcome to Cancer! TL;DR I have early onset Prostate Cancer. It isn’t life-threatening, but it will be a journey to being on the other side of this. I’ve named her Pernicious, but she will not be persistent.
- How I'm Doing So Far. The beginning of the road starts with gratitude.
- Labs — April 2025 Gleason 3+3, a high-risk Decipher score, and a clean MRI.
- How Did You Find It Every fall, like clockwork: a physical. This year it wasn't routine.
- Feeling Dramatic It's a mind fuck, frankly.
- Upgrade U Beyoncé and biopsies.
- Monthly Update: May Espresso and experts.
- Is That a Chill in the Air in June? Contained to the prostate, and the temperature comes down.
- Sucky Options Only Months of consults, one warm surgeon, one cold one, and the decision: surgery.
- Official Eviction Notice TO: Pernicious Prostate Cancer. RE: Illegal Squatting. A 45-day notice.
- Live Like You Were Dying Down 62 pounds, a gym rat at 42, and one mechanical bull to close out the bucket list.
- The Day Of, Part 1: 5 A.M. How it all went down. The morning: an empty freeway, a missing parking garage, and the last normal hour.
- The Day Of, Part 2: The Toughest Night Shift changes at 2 a.m. and 6 a.m., a curtain for a door, and the longest night of my life.
- The Day Of, Part 3: The Walk Three feet, one fart, one lap around the nurses’ station — and the ride home.