April 26, 2017 The back pain I was having was unbearable. My lower back felt like it was on fire. My wife brought my into the ER which was so full that they started to turn away patients shortly after I arrived. The minutes of pain that ticked by seemed like forever. I was experiencing… Read More »
April 25, 2017 Dr O made the referral to the first available surgical urologist. I was eager to get to see someone and find out what needed to happen to get this out of my body. Dr R was the urologist and he was a little different than the other doctors I had been to… Read More »
April 21, 2017 My first visit to the oncologist… It felt like a lot of waiting to get here, but it felt good to finally start working on a plan for treatment and not just discovering what was going on in my body. The Oncologist, Dr S specializes in Chemo therapy and is confident that… Read More »
April 13, 2017 I received a call from Dr. O indicating that they needed me to get a testicular ultra sound right away due to something that had come back on the biopsy. LeeAnna and I had been focused on Lymphoma until I received this call. Now we started to research testicular cancer signs, symptoms,… Read More »
April 17, 2017 The day that I get the official biopsy result from the Dr. It seemed like more of a formality since the biopsy result was already discovered in my ultrasound result. Dr O informed us that the biopsy result showed that I have pure seminoma. He was encouraging and told us that what… Read More »
April 7, 2017 I was feeling pretty nervous about the biopsy. The idea of a long needle going into me and then into this mass and pulling something out of it did not sit well. I had a fear that I would feel something with the needle going in and make some movement that was… Read More »
April 6, 2017 There seemed to be a whole lot of confusion on where my testing should go next. I was told that I needed a biopsy, but there was some debate among the various group of Dr’s that were working with Dr O, that I may need a MRI first before I can get… Read More »
I would like to thank Andrew James for blogging about his experience. It has inspired me to also blog about mine. I would also like to thank my wife LeeAnna for her encouragement in writing this and all of her love and support through this journey. I have read a couple different blogs and usually… Read More »