Richard Charles Davids

My Year with Cancer (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

I was diagnosed with small cell aggressive urinary bladder cancer in late 2017. Julie and I interviewed medical oncologists, nurses, physicians, radiologists, and urologists at four major hospitals in New England to understand the type and extent of cancer and to get answers to our questions.
Getting answers was like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. No single physician had all the pieces of the puzzle. They might have one or two pieces on the board but there were a lot of empty spaces. It was up to us to find all the pieces, put them on the board and make sense of what the pathology reports, imaging analyses, and doctors' opinions meant.
I read technical medical journal articles about cancer, surgery, and survival rates. After consulting with friends, doctors, and wife, I decided on a treatment plan that was best for me. It's not that I did not trust what one physician recommended or what another practitioner would advise but I wanted to control my body myself. I needed to find out about options like surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, side effects, and life-long consequences.
My journey is different than your journey. This journal contains my experience, not yours. You must find your answers to your questions. This journal is not a medical advisory and cannot be used as a recipe or formula to prescribe treatment. In no way does it supersede the advice of your physicians. Ask questions and get advice from as many people as your time allows.
This is my cancer journal. "My Year With Cancer". It's a patient's story. It's a journey I took with the help of many people. I hope it helps you on your journey.
Ten percent (10%) of sales are donated to the American Cancer Society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Richard Charles Davids
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005063078
• Artikelnr.: 69936016

Autorenporträt

Richard Charles Davids is a retired human factors engineer with 34 years at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, California. He grew up in River Edge, New Jersey. He was graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1971 and from New Mexico State University in 1974 with a Master of Arts in Engineering Psychology.
Richard Charles Davids, Julie Yingling, and their doggie 'Ziggy Stardust' live in West Kingston, Rhode Island. He has sponsored and privately funded over a dozen senior design and capstone engineering projects at New England universities.
Projects study and propose solutions to issues in environmental safety, homelessness, refugee shelter, human waste recycling, driving and police safety, fall and injury prevention, healthcare, flood control, physical therapy, and snow plowing. A couple of projects won NMSU WERC Environmental Design awards.
Richard Charles Davids manages a website dedicated to exercise and Alzheimer's Disease at www deepsloweasy dot com and a website proposing solutions for refugee shelter at www thehomeshelter dot org. Other interests include gardening, walking Ziggy, swimming, updating websites, reading, and thinking of new senior design engineering projects.