Tag: Health

Irony

  18 years ago today, I had my left kidney and 10 pounds of cancer removed.  This anniversary is, of course, a big    A few weeks before that surgery, I had returned to Johns Hopkins to be retested for Growth Hormone.  There’s a whole lot of info on my past experiences with HGH in my …

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NED for 14 years!

NED stands for No Evidence of Disease Amazing! It’s Been 14 Years, Already. Today is the fourteenth anniversary of my kidney cancer surgery.  These fourteen years have been bonus years for me.  What were the odds I’d get kidney cancer? According to my “risk factors”, I “should” have had colon cancer because both parents and …

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NED for 13 years!

NED stands for No Evidence of Disease Amazing! It’s Been 13 Years, Already. Today is the Thirteenth Anniversary of my kidney cancer surgery.  These thirteen years have been bonus years for me.  What were the odds I’d get kidney cancer? According to my “risk factors”, I “should” have had colon cancer because both parents and …

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NED for 9 years!

  NED stands for No Evidence of Disease   Amazing! It’s Been 9 Years, Already.   Today is the Ninth Anniversary of my kidney cancer surgery.  These nine years have been bonus years for me.  What were the odds I’d get kidney cancer? According to my “risk factors”, I “should” have had colon cancer because …

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