Cancer

Cancer

The diagnosis took me by surprise.  Stage 4 prostate cancer. There had already been blood in my semen for months.  I took photos of it and showed them to my urologist. He didn’t rush me to emergency surgery.   

I realized it was serious when the nurses in the office wouldn’t look me in the eye.  They held their gazes down. As I walked out of the office and into the burning Phoenix sun, I thought to call my mother.  But how could I tell her that her youngest son had cancer? It felt impossible.

I called the American Cancer Society.  They were great. They walked me through every line of my diagnosis sheet, answered all my questions and stayed on the phone with me until I could pull myself together.

The Prostate