Cancer, Etc. Update for Donald Wilhelm

- April 28, 2010 -

I’m writing this so that everyone can follow my recent experiences and easily see the timeline that I’ve gone through If there is any specific questions that you have don’t hesitate to post them and I’ll answer them for everyone to see As most of you already know I always keep a positive mental attitude about everything and my health is no different Difficult things take a long time impossible things a little longer Author Unknown When Amy I returned from Maui in December of a I had Spleen surgery to remove because it was full of cancer b A… Read More →

Congratulations! You Have Cancer!

- March 16, 2010 -

How could that sentence be possible you’re asking yourself How could a guy who’s spent the last years of his life battling cancer be insisting that my diagnosis of this beast should be treated as a gem to be cherished Well allow me to give you an explanation of my reasoning here It’s a fairly simple concept but one that is heavily clouded by the average person’s fear of death Famous Fear of Death Quotes Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live Dorothy Thompson One cannot look directly at either the sun nor death La… Read More →

Thriving With Cancer

- January 25, 2010 -

How can someone thrive when they have cancer That’s likely the question you most want to ask me right now I’m betting As a time cancer survivor I know a bit about surviving But as the number of times I have endured cancer’s return increased I found my emotional posture strengthening more I had managed to loosen cancer’s grip on my psyche each time now resulting in a life that has virtually no fear of this deadly disease I now consider myself a Cancer Thriver I’ve made it my goal in life to help as many people touched by cancer… Read More →

Cancer, Positive Mental Attitude & A Spleen As Big As Your Head

- December 30, 2009 -

For those of you who have been following my saga this year you know that this past June after months of mostly unsuccessful chemo treatments I walked away from conventional oncology for good Since I wasn’t getting any better and the chemo just made me sick all the time Amy I agreed that alternative methods of healing the body were our last option If we were wrong and I should have died then it must have been my time So for the next months I worked out diligently ate a mostly vegetarian diet and religiously drank my MonaVie super juice… Read More →

Why Do I Let Cancer Keep Bullying Me?

- September 21, 2009 -

As I write this blog entry I find myself still mired in the fear that cancer leaves its survivors The dirty little secret of survivorship is that it takes years and years to completely move past the fear of dying The negative thoughts are real and do have a physiological effect And to make things worse most supporters and loved ones of cancer survivors just assume since the cancer is in remission that life will return to the same normal picture that it was before For some of us that may never happen This causes us to feel isolated at… Read More →