Theron, Jean, Sharon & I did this podcast last summer. I just got done listening to it and I have to say it’s the best podcast I’ve been apart of. Just a few things to note: Sharon & I have been together for 16 months and I am still very much in love with her. […]
This is the fourth night I’ve been in the hospital and I might be here tomorrow night as well. They won’t let me out until my white blood cells replenish to a number they think is safe enough, and as of today it was even lower than yesterday. It means that getting sick would really […]
Yesterday was the last chemo treatment of the first cycle. This means I’m 1/3 of the way through. Sharon and I were looking forward to going to the beach Thursday night to Sunday night. Nothing but books, puzzles, roku & maybe a quick game of sequence and the peace and quiet coast life in my […]
Guest blogger: Sharon Rivers (Girlfriend) This is how I remember the blur of events that was Dave’s diagnosis of Stage III testicular cancer and his subsequent five-day hospitalization: (Disclaimer: In the following timeline, some individual’s names have been excluded and replaced with vague, possibly incorrect job titles; statements attributed to individuals are not necessarily […]
I’ve been out of the hospital two whole days now and stayed at my parents’ house. Tomorrow I go back for another chemotherapy session. It’s almost 8:30 and I’m exhausted. I mean that after I write this I will probably go to sleep. I don’t feel like me anymore. This doesn’t feel like my body. […]
Well it looks like I’ll be leaving the hospital today. I’m just waiting for some take home medications and paperwork. Leaving the hospital just opens up the “what if …” part of the brain. I haven’t felt this much fear and uncertainty in 20 years. I’ve almost always known that everything is going to be […]
It all started at 2pm while I was at work at Slabtown when I started getting chest pains. At first I thought I had pulled a muscle, but the pain started to intensify and it started to spread around my left side and my back. It became more and more intense as the minutes went […]