I try to do all I’ve been told to do to counter my cancer, like eating a proper diet and paying attention to cancer-fighting nutrients. And pursuing rigorous, daily weight and cardio exercise, including a weekly session at the gym with Bryan, my personal trainer. Bryan’s a self-described, “certifiable ‘Rocky’ freak.” He saw the movie […]
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March 3, 2011 
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Despite cancer, our lives move on. We’re driving across America, including a test drive of the new Hoover Dam Bypass, which relocates U.S. 93 traffic 1,500 feet away from the old Rte. 93 atop the dam itself. The Bypass is a stunning, spanning arch of concrete 900 feet above the Colorado River. Hoover Dam, well […]
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February 20, 2011 0 Comments
She came into the room on a walker, the 80-year-old woman with bladder cancer, and she sat next to me during a presentation at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. And at one point in the discussion, she spoke: “Cancer’s not the end of life. It may be a journey to the end of life, but […]
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February 13, 2011 1 Comment
With the early return of my prostate cancer, my oncologist has raised the option of rad treatment to the pelvis — even though there’s *no certainty* that all of my cancer resides there. That’s thanks to the freakin’ tumors the pathologist found in two lymph nodes snipped out at surgery. I mean, once it’s in […]
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My First Cancer 
Serendipity
Plan on being surprised. On this cross-country trip, we’ve already been rewarded twice with the unexpected — stuff going on we had no idea of, until the very moment that we stumbled right into it. One of the joys of a spontaneous journey. Take last Sunday. We had no idea of the import of March […]
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