“I am too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, and too determined to be defeated.” This is an anonymous quote from the card given out at Marcel’s funeral. Marcel’s wife sent me this card. It is a beautiful quote. From what I knew of Marcel, he embodied these words. Let me help […]
Let me introduce you to four of the patients I have met over the last year. I will introduce them to you in no particular order. I have changed their names to preserve their anonymity. 1) Justin is a fifty-three-year-old indigenous man. I met him and his wife in the summer of 2021. Justin told […]
March is colorectal cancer awareness month. Considering this, for the next four weeks, I thought I would highlight a few of the colorectal cancer patients I have had over the years who have impacted me in one way or another. Carole is one of these patients. I met Carole in February of 2017 when she […]
I live in Canada. In my province, the third Monday of February each year is a statutory holiday called Family Day. As I am publishing this story on Family Day 2022, I thought it apropos to share a story about a family who impacted me while I tried to help them on their short cancer […]
I would like to share a story about a woman named Diana. I have known Diana since March of 2017. Diana has incurable pancreas cancer. The opportunity to have lengthy relationships with my pancreas cancer patients occurs infrequently. The sad fact of the matter with pancreas cancer is that it is often a quick killer. […]
For two months in the spring of 2021, I was part of the care team involved in the treatment of a sixty-seven year old woman with a newly diagnosed squamous carcinoma of the anal canal. This woman’s cancer had not spread beyond her pelvis at the time of diagnosis. This was a good thing. My […]
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