Principle 3: Studied Indifference
Principle 3, I call it studied indifference. What does that mean? It means that you know every single solitary thing about what is going to happen to you during every single course of treatment. It might be an operation, it might be a chemo session, it might be an MRI, bone marrow draw, take your […]
Principle 2: Advocate For Yourself
The second principle is to advocate for yourself. So what is that? It means that at every step along the way in your treatment you ask for things nicely (that is very important!) that reduces the stress or increases the comfort of your treatment. This isn’t like a limosine ride to each one of my […]
Principle 1: I call it Get Yourself Together.
What is it? It’s you taking control of your thoughts in a way that allows you to perform at optimal functioning as a cancer patient. So why is it important? If you are running around with a lot of bad thoughts in your head and you can’t get them out of your head and it […]
Surgery
I wanted to share a story of early in my whole treatment, an adventure with having T-Cell Lymphoma that illustrates a really important point. I had a tumor in the back of my leg, above my hamstring, the doctors weren’t exactly sure what it was, so they had done a needle aspiration, where basically they […]
An Insult to Dumpster Fires
I’ve got a story for you today on expectations and how sometimes things just don’t go our way. Especially as a cancer patient, managing expectations and understanding processes can be hard. And we can’t always control that! Let me tell you about The Insult to Dumpster Fires. The day had come, and it was finally […]
Were You There When It Happened?
I’d like to share a story with you today from my childhood that has a lot to do with being a better cancer patient. Every summer as a 9 or 10 year old kid, my friends and I would wake up, have breakfast at home, and then get on our bikes and go. We’d all […]
About the Book
Today I want to share with you a little bit on what we are trying to do here. First, my cancer story, what happened to me. Second, a little bit on my background. And then what came out of combining those two things and in a bit of trying to help people who have cancer […]
