This was accidently overlooked and when I realized it today it seemed like karma revealed it now! Suffering scanxiety for my upcoming ct scan for pancreatic. I've been 2 yrs + and your article gave me strength and positivity.. I wish I was looking at your mountains and pronghirns but your reflections will do. Thank you so much
Love your analogy of how you've been acting like the pronghorn. I just ordered a signed copy of The Wilds of Cancer for a friend who was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer and The Wilds of Aging for myself.
Sending you and Marymy best wishes. Thanks for sharing how you navigate uncertainty and anxiety, Rick. It's wonderful to hear that nature can offer comfort and be a catalyst for your insights.
Beautifully written, Rick. I love reading about your thoughtful, life affirming process - such a wise approach and instructive for all us with health issues and in relation to our lives overall. Thanks for sharing. Cheering you on always, Laurie
Rick you are so honest and forthright. You have done everything right. I would have the same worries. Please keep us posted. The odds are with you and so are all your fans.
Thanks, Patricia, for sharing your insights and feelings. It certainly is an odd space to be in when I feel I've taken the right steps in fighting cancer, and yet I know that I don't have total control over the outcome.
Honest writing, Rick. We do pin our hopes, and fears, on what our PSA is doing. I'm two years post-radiation and hormone therapy, as well, and I transitioning to six-month check ups. My PSA has been going up and down a little, and I share your fear that the aggressive cancer may come back. I like your DARE plan.
Thanks for sharing about your cancer, Mark. We're on a very similar journey, and I wish you the best on yours. I've found the DARE plan very helpful. If you explore it, please let me know what you think. Rick
This was accidently overlooked and when I realized it today it seemed like karma revealed it now! Suffering scanxiety for my upcoming ct scan for pancreatic. I've been 2 yrs + and your article gave me strength and positivity.. I wish I was looking at your mountains and pronghirns but your reflections will do. Thank you so much
I hope your upcoming CT scan brings good news. I sure understand "scanxiety."
Love your analogy of how you've been acting like the pronghorn. I just ordered a signed copy of The Wilds of Cancer for a friend who was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer and The Wilds of Aging for myself.
Thanks for your order, Barb. The two signed copies are in the mail. Enjoy!
Sending you and Marymy best wishes. Thanks for sharing how you navigate uncertainty and anxiety, Rick. It's wonderful to hear that nature can offer comfort and be a catalyst for your insights.
You might like to read my recent poem: https://www.carermentor.com/p/a-caregivers-poem-the-we-of-cancer?r=a9y7d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thanks for the link to the poem, Victoria. I enjoyed and related to it.
Just sending love to you both. It’s so much to endure. 🫂
Thanks so much, Suzanne. I have fond memories of working with you to protect wolves. I'm glad you're still deep in the fight.
Sharing this with my husband, who was skinning up peaks with Jesse last Sunday, and recovering from colon surgery this Sunday...
Wow! That's quite the contrast. I hope his recovery goes well.
Beautifully written, Rick. I love reading about your thoughtful, life affirming process - such a wise approach and instructive for all us with health issues and in relation to our lives overall. Thanks for sharing. Cheering you on always, Laurie
Thanks, Laurie, for your warm and wonderful words. I appreciate your support with this and, of course, with Indivisible Park County.
Rick you are so honest and forthright. You have done everything right. I would have the same worries. Please keep us posted. The odds are with you and so are all your fans.
Thanks, Patricia, for sharing your insights and feelings. It certainly is an odd space to be in when I feel I've taken the right steps in fighting cancer, and yet I know that I don't have total control over the outcome.
Honest writing, Rick. We do pin our hopes, and fears, on what our PSA is doing. I'm two years post-radiation and hormone therapy, as well, and I transitioning to six-month check ups. My PSA has been going up and down a little, and I share your fear that the aggressive cancer may come back. I like your DARE plan.
Thanks for sharing about your cancer, Mark. We're on a very similar journey, and I wish you the best on yours. I've found the DARE plan very helpful. If you explore it, please let me know what you think. Rick
Will do.