Category: Do Not Quote Me
Everyone starts somewhere. These posts are from my earlier years — written with confidence that outpaced wisdom. I’ve left them up because deleting them would be dishonest, and because the distance between then and now is kind of the whole point.
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Cancer and Depression: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) blog series announcement
Later this year, in May, I’ll pass through a milestone of 7 years since my cancer diagnosis, treatment, eventual remission and the fight that followed. That fight is still being waged today against a body that never fully recovered. As a result of chemotherapy and the various related maladies that befell me. I now suffer
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The First Week… …That I Knew I Had Asperger’s
The week was a fresh start for me, a reboot of my past life, all new and shiny as opposed to the previous version. On Monday, I started an exciting new chapter in my professional life. I work with an email marketing services firm. They’ve been around for a little while and they have an excellent
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Stolen Samples – Cancer Diagnosis
It seemed like an eternity had passed. The doctor had left with stolen samples of my neck tissue. Laura, my wife, rocked on her heels, waiting and watching for the door to crack open and spill the truth about my diagnosis. Her hand searched out mine and found it grasping firmly. I looked into her
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It all starts somewhere…
The descent into Cancerville began on a week like any other. The only difference was that my throat had become a little ticklish and I had an occasional irritating cough. There wasn’t any real indication of something dangerous. My week was a simple schedule, no work, my biggest concern was choosing between two job options.
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Greetings from the world formerly known as Cancerville
The only thing that sucks more than living through cancer is dying from it. That may sound morbid, but it is absolutely true. Before I survived cancer I had absolutely no idea how powerless I was capable of becoming. It’s hard for me to accept that anyone, even my wife Laura, could possibly understand what