How Well Is Well When Talking About How We Feel?..."I'm doing fine." That is the response I usually give when asked how I am doing. People ask me how I feel...reactionscomments
The Weight She Carries: Support For The Caregiver...There is a couple I know where the wife is so fed up about losing her sense of identity, losing her sense...reactions2comments
The Right Place and Time...For all my complaining about living in Los Angeles, I have to acknowledge how fortunate I am to be here. As with...reactionscomments
Positive Contributions Equal a Brighter Day...Have you ever met that person who enters a room and is instantly likable? Someone who has a positive comment to make...reactions3comments
Getting Easier While Getting Tougher...Cancer treatment can be a whole world of contradiction for a patient. Because of our individual biologies and the unpredictability of treatments...reactions4comments
Fear and the Reality Check -- Part Two...As discussed in the first part of this article, as a Stage IV lung cancer patient, it is difficult to escape the...reactionscomments
Treating the Many Shades of Rash...Over the course of nearly four years, I have learned to cope with a variety of skin conditions brought on by various...reactionscomments
Parent-Child Communication Over Time...When I received my diagnosis of Stage IV Lung Cancer, my child was eight years old. My wife, who has professional experience...reactionscomments
That Thing About Blaming Smokers...I was fortunate enough in the 1970s to grow up in a smoke-free household. But not all my friends were so lucky...reactions1comment
Honesty In Conversation...Lung cancer is not quite unique in the way that people dance around what they are feeling in conversation, but it is...reactionscomments
Cancersplaining 101...If I had any moments of doubt about why I got cancer or what I should do to get rid of it...reactions2comments
‘Cover Girls’ Raise Awareness, Advance Change...Recently, as I was in the Resource Center of the High Point Regional Cancer Center just before a meeting there, I suddenly...reactionscomments
Understanding Death...A friend of mine recently asked me, as a lung cancer patient, if I had any insight into the process of dying...reactionscomments
Moving Beyond the Fear of Death...It is okay to acknowledge fear. We all have it. When living with a cancer diagnosis, it can be exceptionally difficult to...reactions2comments
Balancing Priorities...Living with lung cancer makes a few things easier -- for instance, you have a permanent excuse for just about anything, and...reactionscomments
New Treatment, New Side Effects - Part One...We are extremely saddened to say that on October 21, 2018, Jeffrey Poehlmann passed away. Jeffrey’s advocacy efforts and writing continue to...reactionscomments
Approaching Every Holiday Like It's the Last...I was diagnosed just before Thanksgiving and opted to wait until after Christmas to begin my chemotherapy. Assuming that there was a...reactionscomments
A Cure That Costs Nothing: Time With Old Friends...It may not eradicate the cancer, but spending time with people we care about certainly is a cure for something. When my...reactionscomments
Sifting Through C-Word Headlines...The "C-word" is clickbait and it can be very difficult to distinguish from legitimate news headlines, especially with regard to cancer research...reactionscomments
New Treatment, New Side Effects - Part Two...Part One of this article detailed the side effects I was excited to see gone as my chemotherapy treatment came to an...reactionscomments
