I ’ m Baaack!
I have been away too long and I apologize.  This is the longest I have been away from the blog since I started it in 2008.  My Mail program on my Mac has been on the fritz since April.  I … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - February 18, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Living with Cancer Source Type: blogs

I’m Baaack!
I have been away too long and I apologize.  This is the longest I have been away from the blog since I started it in 2008.  My Mail program on my Mac has been on the fritz since April.  I … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - February 18, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Living with Cancer Source Type: blogs

Cancer Treatment Is Over!
I got to ring the brass bell in the lobby of the radiation center last Wednesday.  I rang three times as is the custom.  Except for that celebratory ritual, the day was a bit anti-climatic.  This whole cancer episode has … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - June 10, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Journal * Living with Cancer Biotherapy Head and neck cancer Leukemia Radiation Recurrence Side effects Survivorship Source Type: blogs

Radiation Therapy
Yesterday I had my 15th radiation treatment.  I am halfway through, definitely the easier half.  I confess I am writing this under duress.  I have just spent the last hour typing out a clear, seamless narrative of my recent experience … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - May 14, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Journal * Living with Cancer Newly diagnosed CT scan Head and neck cancer Radiation Side effects Source Type: blogs

Cancer Pathology Results
There are always two ways of looking at things.  Sure I have a new cancer, my third actually, and given my medical history and the state of my immune system, perhaps not the last.  After all there was a time … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - April 15, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Journal * Living with Cancer Newly diagnosed Rare cancers Head and neck cancer Radiation Sarcoma Surgery Source Type: blogs

New cancer, week one
I just reread my previous post.  Boy, did I leave it on a somber, teasing note.  I suppose we would call this post-op day # 8.  I am in the waiting and recovery mode.  The surgeon minimized the discomfort that … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - April 2, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Journal * Living with Cancer Newly diagnosed Rare cancers Anxiety Head and neck cancer Radiation Side effects Surgery Source Type: blogs

Frankenstein ’ s Cancer
“Frankenstein”  that is the first word to come to the mind of Sophia.  I was sitting in the family room with a cloth over my head when the two girls came in to see Papa. day #1 post-op.  Since the … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - March 28, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Journal * Living with Cancer Newly diagnosed Rare cancers Head and neck cancer Hospital Parotid cancer salivary gland cancer Surgery Source Type: blogs

Frankenstein’s Cancer
“Frankenstein”  that is the first word to come to the mind of Sophia.  I was sitting in the family room with a cloth over my head when the two girls came in to see Papa. day #1 post-op.  Since the … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - March 28, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Journal * Living with Cancer Newly diagnosed Rare cancers Head and neck cancer Hospital Parotid cancer salivary gland cancer Surgery Source Type: blogs

And the answer is … CANCER
When I last sat down to post, I was preparing for a biopsy of my parotid gland.  Is it benign or malignant?  Well, tomorrow is my surgery but that’s not much of a hint.  They were going to take it … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - March 23, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Journal * Newly diagnosed Rare cancers Anxiety Biopsy Head and neck cancer Source Type: blogs