#cancersurvivor — Public Fediverse posts
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After the Mother’s Walk for Peace in Boston, I made my most important stop of the day. 🌹
My mother Millie — 2x cancer survivor. Showing her some love on Mother’s Day. 💝
You are my hero and inspire everything I do. ✨
#HappyMothersDay #hero #BreastCancer #CancerSurvivor #Boston #Dorchester #Latinos
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After the Mother’s Walk for Peace in Boston, I made my most important stop of the day. 🌹
My mother Millie — 2x cancer survivor. Showing her some love on Mother’s Day. 💝
You are my hero and inspire everything I do. ✨
#HappyMothersDay #hero #BreastCancer #CancerSurvivor #Boston #Dorchester #Latinos
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After the Mother’s Walk for Peace in Boston, I made my most important stop of the day. 🌹
My mother Millie — 2x cancer survivor. Showing her some love on Mother’s Day. 💝
You are my hero and inspire everything I do. ✨
#HappyMothersDay #hero #BreastCancer #CancerSurvivor #Boston #Dorchester #Latinos
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After the Mother’s Walk for Peace in Boston, I made my most important stop of the day. 🌹
My mother Millie — 2x cancer survivor. Showing her some love on Mother’s Day. 💝
You are my hero and inspire everything I do. ✨
#HappyMothersDay #hero #BreastCancer #CancerSurvivor #Boston #Dorchester #Latinos
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After the Mother’s Walk for Peace in Boston, I made my most important stop of the day. 🌹
My mother Millie — 2x cancer survivor. Showing her some love on Mother’s Day. 💝
You are my hero and inspire everything I do. ✨
#HappyMothersDay #hero #BreastCancer #CancerSurvivor #Boston #Dorchester #Latinos
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A 14-year-old cancer survivor in Georgia used his Make-A-Wish to help 300+ people experiencing homelessness instead of taking a dream trip. That is not just generous. That is extraordinary. #MakeAWish #CancerSurvivor #GoodNews
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A 14-year-old cancer survivor in Georgia used his Make-A-Wish to help 300+ people experiencing homelessness instead of taking a dream trip. That is not just generous. That is extraordinary. #MakeAWish #CancerSurvivor #GoodNews
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A 14-year-old cancer survivor in Georgia used his Make-A-Wish to help 300+ people experiencing homelessness instead of taking a dream trip. That is not just generous. That is extraordinary. #MakeAWish #CancerSurvivor #GoodNews
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A 14-year-old cancer survivor in Georgia used his Make-A-Wish to help 300+ people experiencing homelessness instead of taking a dream trip. That is not just generous. That is extraordinary. #MakeAWish #CancerSurvivor #GoodNews
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A 14-year-old cancer survivor in Georgia used his Make-A-Wish to help 300+ people experiencing homelessness instead of taking a dream trip. That is not just generous. That is extraordinary. #MakeAWish #CancerSurvivor #GoodNews
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A 14-year-old Georgia cancer survivor used his Make-A-Wish to help more than 300 people experiencing homelessness instead of taking a trip for himself.
That is the kind of story that resets your sense of what really matters.
#MakeAWish #CancerSurvivor #Humanity #GoodNews -
Having gone to my cancer doctor last week, I’m still processing her reaction to my ongoing good test results.
It’s tough experiencing thyroid cancer. Nearly everyone you tell about it (who has not experienced it themselves) will respond in the same way: “Oh that’s the easy cancer! They just take it out and you’re done! You don’t even get chemo!”
And then you’re left staring at them, thinking some combination of, “You absolute dickhead, it’s cancer!!!” and, “Well I hope it’s actually that easy.”
I went through multiple neck biopsies, surgery that I was told could have dangerous or permanent adverse outcomes, an odd radiation treatment that had difficult preparation, painful recovery, and ongoing nerve pain years post surgery. On top of the worry about, you know, having cancer! I could list all the many, many factors that did not make this “easy”.
Yet, after 8 years I am still here. I had an aggressive form of cancer that had a high likelihood of returning within 5 years, and a high likelihood of spreading. But it has not.
My doctor was very happy for me. Yet when I tell others, they already had this expectation of it being “easy” so they don’t celebrate with me. That makes it difficult to talk about. I just want people to be as happy for me as my cancer doctor is! Is it too much to ask? I’m still here!
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A 15-year-old Delhi boy, Aarav, has achieved 96.6% in CBSE Class 10 while battling cancer and undergoing treatment https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/15-year-old-delhi-student-achieves-966-percent-in-cbse-class-10-amid-cancer-treatment-ffgl835v?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #CBSEClass10 #CancerSurvivor #CBSEResults2026
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Yuvraj Singh has shared his emotional journey of battling cancer during his career peak, overcoming a life-threatening diagnosis to return to international cricket. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/sports/cricket/yuvraj-singh-cancer-battle-comeback-story-lf50m8cf?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #YuvrajSingh #CancerSurvivor #IndianCricket #WorldCup2011
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Yuvraj Singh has shared his emotional journey of battling cancer during his career peak, overcoming a life-threatening diagnosis to return to international cricket. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/sports/cricket/yuvraj-singh-cancer-battle-comeback-story-lf50m8cf?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #YuvrajSingh #CancerSurvivor #IndianCricket #WorldCup2011
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Yuvraj Singh has shared his emotional journey of battling cancer during his career peak, overcoming a life-threatening diagnosis to return to international cricket. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/sports/cricket/yuvraj-singh-cancer-battle-comeback-story-lf50m8cf?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #YuvrajSingh #CancerSurvivor #IndianCricket #WorldCup2011
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Yuvraj Singh has shared his emotional journey of battling cancer during his career peak, overcoming a life-threatening diagnosis to return to international cricket. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/sports/cricket/yuvraj-singh-cancer-battle-comeback-story-lf50m8cf?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #YuvrajSingh #CancerSurvivor #IndianCricket #WorldCup2011
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🇺🇸👟 Stopped by to see my mother Millie in Dorchester before heading to the No Kings Rally in Boston.
💝She’s a two‑time cancer survivor, my inspiration — and in classic Millie fashion, she just said, ‘No Rey.’
#Cancersurvivor #Democracy #Latinos #Dorchester #Immigrants #Family
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I have a file called "Admission Nurse.odt" in my files. What is it about?
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Probably a complaint about an admission nurse.
Yep, I've had to complain a few times during my brush with cancer.
Like... my first discharge was a complete clusterfuck.
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I have a file called "Admission Nurse.odt" in my files. What is it about?
🤷
Probably a complaint about an admission nurse.
Yep, I've had to complain a few times during my brush with cancer.
Like... my first discharge was a complete clusterfuck.
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I have a file called "Admission Nurse.odt" in my files. What is it about?
🤷
Probably a complaint about an admission nurse.
Yep, I've had to complain a few times during my brush with cancer.
Like... my first discharge was a complete clusterfuck.
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The hardest part of beating cancer is the fear of it coming back. Learn how "Immune Surveillance" via NK cells acts as a 24/7 security system to mop up micro-metastases before they turn into a relapse. Here is the science behind reducing recurrence risk.
Protect Your Future! https://justpaste.it/n0d52
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Today is Rare Disease Day.
I've got two of those. :catjam:
First is familial hypercholesterolemia. This is not your run--of-the-mill hypercholesterolemia. No. This cannot be just treated with diet and exercise. Even the statins aren't great at treating it. The state of the art is a PCSK9 inhibitor. This, this does wonders.
Then, there's the PCNS lymphoma. Lymphomas are already considered rare. The PCNS form is even rarer. I'm over 5 years in remission and doing fine.
May we eradicate all diseases, from the commonest to the rarest.
#RareDiseaseDay2026 #RareDiseaseDay #hypercholesterolemia #FamilialHypercholesterolemia #PCSK9Inhibitor #lymphoma #cancer #PCNSLymphoma #CancerSurvivor #HeartAttackSurvivor
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Today is Rare Disease Day.
I've got two of those. :catjam:
First is familial hypercholesterolemia. This is not your run--of-the-mill hypercholesterolemia. No. This cannot be just treated with diet and exercise. Even the statins aren't great at treating it. The state of the art is a PCSK9 inhibitor. This, this does wonders.
Then, there's the PCNS lymphoma. Lymphomas are already considered rare. The PCNS form is even rarer. I'm over 5 years in remission and doing fine.
May we eradicate all diseases, from the commonest to the rarest.
#RareDiseaseDay2026 #RareDiseaseDay #hypercholesterolemia #FamilialHypercholesterolemia #PCSK9Inhibitor #lymphoma #cancer #PCNSLymphoma #CancerSurvivor #HeartAttackSurvivor
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Today is Rare Disease Day.
I've got two of those. :catjam:
First is familial hypercholesterolemia. This is not your run--of-the-mill hypercholesterolemia. No. This cannot be just treated with diet and exercise. Even the statins aren't great at treating it. The state of the art is a PCSK9 inhibitor. This, this does wonders.
Then, there's the PCNS lymphoma. Lymphomas are already considered rare. The PCNS form is even rarer. I'm over 5 years in remission and doing fine.
May we eradicate all diseases, from the commonest to the rarest.
#RareDiseaseDay2026 #RareDiseaseDay #hypercholesterolemia #FamilialHypercholesterolemia #PCSK9Inhibitor #lymphoma #cancer #PCNSLymphoma #CancerSurvivor #HeartAttackSurvivor
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Today is Rare Disease Day.
I've got two of those. :catjam:
First is familial hypercholesterolemia. This is not your run--of-the-mill hypercholesterolemia. No. This cannot be just treated with diet and exercise. Even the statins aren't great at treating it. The state of the art is a PCSK9 inhibitor. This, this does wonders.
Then, there's the PCNS lymphoma. Lymphomas are already considered rare. The PCNS form is even rarer. I'm over 5 years in remission and doing fine.
May we eradicate all diseases, from the commonest to the rarest.
#RareDiseaseDay2026 #RareDiseaseDay #hypercholesterolemia #FamilialHypercholesterolemia #PCSK9Inhibitor #lymphoma #cancer #PCNSLymphoma #CancerSurvivor #HeartAttackSurvivor
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Gabourey Sidibe's Husband Brandon Frankel Discloses Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis
Brandon Frankel, husband of actress Gabourey Sidibe, reveals he had surgery for stage 1 thyroid cancer and is recovering well. Learn about his diagnosis and prognosis.
#BrandonFrankel, #GaboureySidibe, #ThyroidCancer, #CancerSurvivor, #HealthNews
https://newsletter.tf/brandon-frankel-discloses-stage-1-thyroid-cancer-diagnosis/
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Gabourey Sidibe's Husband Brandon Frankel Discloses Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis
Brandon Frankel, husband of actress Gabourey Sidibe, reveals he had surgery for stage 1 thyroid cancer and is recovering well. Learn about his diagnosis and prognosis.
#BrandonFrankel, #GaboureySidibe, #ThyroidCancer, #CancerSurvivor, #HealthNews
https://newsletter.tf/brandon-frankel-discloses-stage-1-thyroid-cancer-diagnosis/
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Gabourey Sidibe's husband, Brandon Frankel, announced he has stage 1 thyroid cancer. He had surgery and is recovering well, sharing his story publicly.
#BrandonFrankel, #GaboureySidibe, #ThyroidCancer, #CancerSurvivor, #HealthNews
https://newsletter.tf/brandon-frankel-discloses-stage-1-thyroid-cancer-diagnosis/
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Gabourey Sidibe's husband, Brandon Frankel, announced he has stage 1 thyroid cancer. He had surgery and is recovering well, sharing his story publicly.
#BrandonFrankel, #GaboureySidibe, #ThyroidCancer, #CancerSurvivor, #HealthNews
https://newsletter.tf/brandon-frankel-discloses-stage-1-thyroid-cancer-diagnosis/
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Cancer forced a decision: surgery or hormone therapy. I chose systemic control over sawbones. Here’s why I said “hell to the no” and what the numbers are really telling me now
#ProstateCancer #CancerSurvivor #CancerAwareness #MensHealth #HealthJourney #HormoneTherapy #Lupron #CancerJourney #Prostate -
Today is the fifth anniversary of my remission. I wrote an article:
https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2026/02/11/five-years-in-remission/
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Today is the fifth anniversary of my remission. I wrote an article:
https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2026/02/11/five-years-in-remission/
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Today is the fifth anniversary of my remission. I wrote an article:
https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2026/02/11/five-years-in-remission/
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Today is the fifth anniversary of my remission. I wrote an article:
https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2026/02/11/five-years-in-remission/
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Five Years In Remission
I entered remission five years ago on February 11th 2021.
Photo from PxHere. (No, this ain’t my brain.)It’s been a wild ride, to say the least.
Ultimately, everybody’s journey through cancer is their own. If you’re a cancer survivor too, your journey is not my journey, and my journey is not your journey, no matter how similar they may be. Some people never make it through. A sobering thought.
A cancer diagnosis is often a gut punch, but my diagnosis came as a relief to me. Prior to it, I had been slowly dying for months, but I did not know why or have a plan to deal with this slow death. My PCNS lymphoma diagnosis not only told me why I was dying, but it provided me with a plan: first chemo and then a stem cell transplant.
So I underwent treatment. After two rounds of chemo, the tumor was gone from my brain. After five rounds, I was declared to be in remission. Its now been five years since I entered remission, and my latest MRI, done in January of this year, indicates that my brain is still free from cancer. If I had gotten this disease 35 years ago, I would not have been so lucky. I would have died, pure and simple. Medicine has advanced.
After the chemo, I had a stem cell transplant. They extracted stem cells from my body, kept them in storage, destroyed my immune system, and finally they reinjected my stem cells so that I could rebuild my immune system. My entire treatment happened at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet, I never caught this disease.
It’s been a wild ride, I tell you!
My cancer was not the cause of my divorce, but it was a catalyst. My ex-wife and I had already been seeing a marriage counselor a good two years before my cancer showed up. After my treatment, I just did not see myself enduring through this marriage if nothing changed. I tried to change things, but it was in vain. So my ex-wife and I divorced. It is not what I would have wanted, but it was the way forward.
As we were discussing the divorce, I figured that there was no longer any reason for me to hide from the world the fact that I’m not straight, but pansexual. I knew since my teenage years that I wasn’t straight, and even told my wife before we got married that I was bisexual. That’s the only term that I knew at the time, but I prefer to call myself pansexual. Gender or its absence is just no obstacle when it comes to my desire to get intimate with someone else.
Besides being pansexual, I’m also polyamorous. Provided that I’m kept aware of my partners’ intimate encounters with other people, I don’t get jealous if they have those encounters. What gets to me is if I feel neglect. I suppose I might also get angry if a partner of mine hid their encounters with someone else, but this, to my knowledge, has not happened.
I also discovered BDSM, and that I am a Dom. I was always generous in bed, but BDSM allows me to optimize this generosity.
Then I realized that I’m autistic. The signs were present from infancy, but everybody treated me as neurotypical, so I thought that I was neurotypical. My ex-wife has ADHD, but we never discussed neurodivergence in our household. We both imagined that the other perceived the world in the same way we did. This is woefully incorrect, but we didn’t know any better.
I also realized that I’m nonbinary. The surest way to generate dysphoria in me is to insist that I should behave or not behave this or that way because I’m “a man.” At best, I’ll find the idea amusing. At worst, it will generate anger. At any rate, in retrospect, this is another element that caused friction between my ex-wife and me. She thought she had married “a man,” but she did not.
If my cancer had not happened, how much of this self-realization would have happened? I’m not sure. I was pretending to be a neurotypical man in a straight, monogamous, vanilla marriage. I think I could have gone on pretending for more years.
It’s been a wild ride, and I don’t think the ride is over just yet.
#autistic #AutisticWriters #cancer #CancerSurvivor #CancerTreatment #divorce #queer #remission #YourAutisticLife -
Five Years In Remission
I entered remission five years ago on February 11th 2021.
Photo from PxHere. (No, this ain’t my brain.)It’s been a wild ride, to say the least.
Ultimately, everybody’s journey through cancer is their own. If you’re a cancer survivor too, your journey is not my journey, and my journey is not your journey, no matter how similar they may be. Some people never make it through. A sobering thought.
A cancer diagnosis is often a gut punch, but my diagnosis came as a relief to me. Prior to it, I had been slowly dying for months, but I did not know why or have a plan to deal with this slow death. My PCNS lymphoma diagnosis not only told me why I was dying, but it provided me with a plan: first chemo and then a stem cell transplant.
So I underwent treatment. After two rounds of chemo, the tumor was gone from my brain. After five rounds, I was declared to be in remission. Its now been five years since I entered remission, and my latest MRI, done in January of this year, indicates that my brain is still free from cancer. If I had gotten this disease 35 years ago, I would not have been so lucky. I would have died, pure and simple. Medicine has advanced.
After the chemo, I had a stem cell transplant. They extracted stem cells from my body, kept them in storage, destroyed my immune system, and finally they reinjected my stem cells so that I could rebuild my immune system. My entire treatment happened at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet, I never caught this disease.
It’s been a wild ride, I tell you!
My cancer was not the cause of my divorce, but it was a catalyst. My ex-wife and I had already been seeing a marriage counselor a good two years before my cancer showed up. After my treatment, I just did not see myself enduring through this marriage if nothing changed. I tried to change things, but it was in vain. So my ex-wife and I divorced. It is not what I would have wanted, but it was the way forward.
As we were discussing the divorce, I figured that there was no longer any reason for me to hide from the world the fact that I’m not straight, but pansexual. I knew since my teenage years that I wasn’t straight, and even told my wife before we got married that I was bisexual. That’s the only term that I knew at the time, but I prefer to call myself pansexual. Gender or its absence is just no obstacle when it comes to my desire to get intimate with someone else.
Besides being pansexual, I’m also polyamorous. Provided that I’m kept aware of my partners’ intimate encounters with other people, I don’t get jealous if they have those encounters. What gets to me is if I feel neglect. I suppose I might also get angry if a partner of mine hid their encounters with someone else, but this, to my knowledge, has not happened.
I also discovered BDSM, and that I am a Dom. I was always generous in bed, but BDSM allows me to optimize this generosity.
Then I realized that I’m autistic. The signs were present from infancy, but everybody treated me as neurotypical, so I thought that I was neurotypical. My ex-wife has ADHD, but we never discussed neurodivergence in our household. We both imagined that the other perceived the world in the same way we did. This is woefully incorrect, but we didn’t know any better.
I also realized that I’m nonbinary. The surest way to generate dysphoria in me is to insist that I should behave or not behave this or that way because I’m “a man.” At best, I’ll find the idea amusing. At worst, it will generate anger. At any rate, in retrospect, this is another element that caused friction between my ex-wife and me. She thought she had married “a man,” but she did not.
If my cancer had not happened, how much of this self-realization would have happened? I’m not sure. I was pretending to be a neurotypical man in a straight, monogamous, vanilla marriage. I think I could have gone on pretending for more years.
It’s been a wild ride, and I don’t think the ride is over just yet.
#autistic #AutisticWriters #cancer #CancerSurvivor #CancerTreatment #divorce #queer #remission #YourAutisticLife -
Five Years In Remission
I entered remission five years ago on February 11th 2021.
Photo from PxHere. (No, this ain’t my brain.)It’s been a wild ride, to say the least.
Ultimately, everybody’s journey through cancer is their own. If you’re a cancer survivor too, your journey is not my journey, and my journey is not your journey, no matter how similar they may be. Some people never make it through. A sobering thought.
A cancer diagnosis is often a gut punch, but my diagnosis came as a relief to me. Prior to it, I had been slowly dying for months, but I did not know why or have a plan to deal with this slow death. My PCNS lymphoma diagnosis not only told me why I was dying, but it provided me with a plan: first chemo and then a stem cell transplant.
So I underwent treatment. After two rounds of chemo, the tumor was gone from my brain. After five rounds, I was declared to be in remission. Its now been five years since I entered remission, and my latest MRI, done in January of this year, indicates that my brain is still free from cancer. If I had gotten this disease 35 years ago, I would not have been so lucky. I would have died, pure and simple. Medicine has advanced.
After the chemo, I had a stem cell transplant. They extracted stem cells from my body, kept them in storage, destroyed my immune system, and finally they reinjected my stem cells so that I could rebuild my immune system. My entire treatment happened at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet, I never caught this disease.
It’s been a wild ride, I tell you!
My cancer was not the cause of my divorce, but it was a catalyst. My ex-wife and I had already been seeing a marriage counselor a good two years before my cancer showed up. After my treatment, I just did not see myself enduring through this marriage if nothing changed. I tried to change things, but it was in vain. So my ex-wife and I divorced. It is not what I would have wanted, but it was the way forward.
As we were discussing the divorce, I figured that there was no longer any reason for me to hide from the world the fact that I’m not straight, but pansexual. I knew since my teenage years that I wasn’t straight, and even told my wife before we got married that I was bisexual. That’s the only term that I knew at the time, but I prefer to call myself pansexual. Gender or its absence is just no obstacle when it comes to my desire to get intimate with someone else.
Besides being pansexual, I’m also polyamorous. Provided that I’m kept aware of my partners’ intimate encounters with other people, I don’t get jealous if they have those encounters. What gets to me is if I feel neglect. I suppose I might also get angry if a partner of mine hid their encounters with someone else, but this, to my knowledge, has not happened.
I also discovered BDSM, and that I am a Dom. I was always generous in bed, but BDSM allows me to optimize this generosity.
Then I realized that I’m autistic. The signs were present from infancy, but everybody treated me as neurotypical, so I thought that I was neurotypical. My ex-wife has ADHD, but we never discussed neurodivergence in our household. We both imagined that the other perceived the world in the same way we did. This is woefully incorrect, but we didn’t know any better.
I also realized that I’m nonbinary. The surest way to generate dysphoria in me is to insist that I should behave or not behave this or that way because I’m “a man.” At best, I’ll find the idea amusing. At worst, it will generate anger. At any rate, in retrospect, this is another element that caused friction between my ex-wife and me. She thought she had married “a man,” but she did not.
If my cancer had not happened, how much of this self-realization would have happened? I’m not sure. I was pretending to be a neurotypical man in a straight, monogamous, vanilla marriage. I think I could have gone on pretending for more years.
It’s been a wild ride, and I don’t think the ride is over just yet.
#autistic #AutisticWriters #cancer #CancerSurvivor #CancerTreatment #divorce #queer #remission #YourAutisticLife -
Five Years In Remission
I entered remission five years ago on February 11th 2021.
Photo from PxHere. (No, this ain’t my brain.)It’s been a wild ride, to say the least.
Ultimately, everybody’s journey through cancer is their own. If you’re a cancer survivor too, your journey is not my journey, and my journey is not your journey, no matter how similar they may be. Some people never make it through. A sobering thought.
A cancer diagnosis is often a gut punch, but my diagnosis came as a relief to me. Prior to it, I had been slowly dying for months, but I did not know why or have a plan to deal with this slow death. My PCNS lymphoma diagnosis not only told me why I was dying, but it provided me with a plan: first chemo and then a stem cell transplant.
So I underwent treatment. After two rounds of chemo, the tumor was gone from my brain. After five rounds, I was declared to be in remission. Its now been five years since I entered remission, and my latest MRI, done in January of this year, indicates that my brain is still free from cancer. If I had gotten this disease 35 years ago, I would not have been so lucky. I would have died, pure and simple. Medicine has advanced.
After the chemo, I had a stem cell transplant. They extracted stem cells from my body, kept them in storage, destroyed my immune system, and finally they reinjected my stem cells so that I could rebuild my immune system. My entire treatment happened at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet, I never caught this disease.
It’s been a wild ride, I tell you!
My cancer was not the cause of my divorce, but it was a catalyst. My ex-wife and I had already been seeing a marriage counselor a good two years before my cancer showed up. After my treatment, I just did not see myself enduring through this marriage if nothing changed. I tried to change things, but it was in vain. So my ex-wife and I divorced. It is not what I would have wanted, but it was the way forward.
As we were discussing the divorce, I figured that there was no longer any reason for me to hide from the world the fact that I’m not straight, but pansexual. I knew since my teenage years that I wasn’t straight, and even told my wife before we got married that I was bisexual. That’s the only term that I knew at the time, but I prefer to call myself pansexual. Gender or its absence is just no obstacle when it comes to my desire to get intimate with someone else.
Besides being pansexual, I’m also polyamorous. Provided that I’m kept aware of my partners’ intimate encounters with other people, I don’t get jealous if they have those encounters. What gets to me is if I feel neglect. I suppose I might also get angry if a partner of mine hid their encounters with someone else, but this, to my knowledge, has not happened.
I also discovered BDSM, and that I am a Dom. I was always generous in bed, but BDSM allows me to optimize this generosity.
Then I realized that I’m autistic. The signs were present from infancy, but everybody treated me as neurotypical, so I thought that I was neurotypical. My ex-wife has ADHD, but we never discussed neurodivergence in our household. We both imagined that the other perceived the world in the same way we did. This is woefully incorrect, but we didn’t know any better.
I also realized that I’m nonbinary. The surest way to generate dysphoria in me is to insist that I should behave or not behave this or that way because I’m “a man.” At best, I’ll find the idea amusing. At worst, it will generate anger. At any rate, in retrospect, this is another element that caused friction between my ex-wife and me. She thought she had married “a man,” but she did not.
If my cancer had not happened, how much of this self-realization would have happened? I’m not sure. I was pretending to be a neurotypical man in a straight, monogamous, vanilla marriage. I think I could have gone on pretending for more years.
It’s been a wild ride, and I don’t think the ride is over just yet.
#autistic #AutisticWriters #cancer #CancerSurvivor #CancerTreatment #divorce #queer #remission #YourAutisticLife -
Five Years In Remission
I entered remission five years ago on February 11th 2021.
Photo from PxHere. (No, this ain’t my brain.)It’s been a wild ride, to say the least.
Ultimately, everybody’s journey through cancer is their own. If you’re a cancer survivor too, your journey is not my journey, and my journey is not your journey, no matter how similar they may be. Some people never make it through. A sobering thought.
A cancer diagnosis is often a gut punch, but my diagnosis came as a relief to me. Prior to it, I had been slowly dying for months, but I did not know why or have a plan to deal with this slow death. My PCNS lymphoma diagnosis not only told me why I was dying, but it provided me with a plan: first chemo and then a stem cell transplant.
So I underwent treatment. After two rounds of chemo, the tumor was gone from my brain. After five rounds, I was declared to be in remission. Its now been five years since I entered remission, and my latest MRI, done in January of this year, indicates that my brain is still free from cancer. If I had gotten this disease 35 years ago, I would not have been so lucky. I would have died, pure and simple. Medicine has advanced.
After the chemo, I had a stem cell transplant. They extracted stem cells from my body, kept them in storage, destroyed my immune system, and finally they reinjected my stem cells so that I could rebuild my immune system. My entire treatment happened at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet, I never caught this disease.
It’s been a wild ride, I tell you!
My cancer was not the cause of my divorce, but it was a catalyst. My ex-wife and I had already been seeing a marriage counselor a good two years before my cancer showed up. After my treatment, I just did not see myself enduring through this marriage if nothing changed. I tried to change things, but it was in vain. So my ex-wife and I divorced. It is not what I would have wanted, but it was the way forward.
As we were discussing the divorce, I figured that there was no longer any reason for me to hide from the world the fact that I’m not straight, but pansexual. I knew since my teenage years that I wasn’t straight, and even told my wife before we got married that I was bisexual. That’s the only term that I knew at the time, but I prefer to call myself pansexual. Gender or its absence is just no obstacle when it comes to my desire to get intimate with someone else.
Besides being pansexual, I’m also polyamorous. Provided that I’m kept aware of my partners’ intimate encounters with other people, I don’t get jealous if they have those encounters. What gets to me is if I feel neglect. I suppose I might also get angry if a partner of mine hid their encounters with someone else, but this, to my knowledge, has not happened.
I also discovered BDSM, and that I am a Dom. I was always generous in bed, but BDSM allows me to optimize this generosity.
Then I realized that I’m autistic. The signs were present from infancy, but everybody treated me as neurotypical, so I thought that I was neurotypical. My ex-wife has ADHD, but we never discussed neurodivergence in our household. We both imagined that the other perceived the world in the same way we did. This is woefully incorrect, but we didn’t know any better.
I also realized that I’m nonbinary. The surest way to generate dysphoria in me is to insist that I should behave or not behave this or that way because I’m “a man.” At best, I’ll find the idea amusing. At worst, it will generate anger. At any rate, in retrospect, this is another element that caused friction between my ex-wife and me. She thought she had married “a man,” but she did not.
If my cancer had not happened, how much of this self-realization would have happened? I’m not sure. I was pretending to be a neurotypical man in a straight, monogamous, vanilla marriage. I think I could have gone on pretending for more years.
It’s been a wild ride, and I don’t think the ride is over just yet.
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On this week's episode of Podmasana..."Why not me?" When doctors gave Joe McClernon 1.5-5 years with stage 4 cancer, he asked that instead of "why me." 6+ years later, he's still teaching yoga & spreading hope. Link to last week's extended preview [https://tinyurl.com/podmasana-p7]. Full episode releases to the public this week. #Podmasana #Podcast #CancerSurvivor #wellness #healthcare #spirituality #wisdom
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On this week's episode of Podmasana..."Why not me?" When doctors gave Joe McClernon 1.5-5 years with stage 4 cancer, he asked that instead of "why me." 6+ years later, he's still teaching yoga & spreading hope. Link to last week's extended preview [https://tinyurl.com/podmasana-p7]. Full episode releases to the public this week. #Podmasana #Podcast #CancerSurvivor #wellness #healthcare #spirituality #wisdom
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On this week's episode of Podmasana..."Why not me?" When doctors gave Joe McClernon 1.5-5 years with stage 4 cancer, he asked that instead of "why me." 6+ years later, he's still teaching yoga & spreading hope. Link to last week's extended preview [https://tinyurl.com/podmasana-p7]. Full episode releases to the public this week. #Podmasana #Podcast #CancerSurvivor #wellness #healthcare #spirituality #wisdom
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On this week's episode of Podmasana..."Why not me?" When doctors gave Joe McClernon 1.5-5 years with stage 4 cancer, he asked that instead of "why me." 6+ years later, he's still teaching yoga & spreading hope. Link to last week's extended preview [https://tinyurl.com/podmasana-p7]. Full episode releases to the public this week. #Podmasana #Podcast #CancerSurvivor #wellness #healthcare #spirituality #wisdom
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@podmasana/115961716008661551
ICYMI: Joe McClernon's story will stop you in your tracks.
A carpenter turned yoga teacher. Stage 4 prostate cancer. Gleason 10. Given 1.5-5 years to live.
That was 6 years ago.
His response to "why me?" 👉 "Why NOT me?"
This preview episode hits different. Full episode drops next week.
Listen: [https://tinyurl.com/podmasana-p7]
#Podmasana #CancerSurvivor #Yoga -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@podmasana/115961716008661551
ICYMI: Joe McClernon's story will stop you in your tracks.
A carpenter turned yoga teacher. Stage 4 prostate cancer. Gleason 10. Given 1.5-5 years to live.
That was 6 years ago.
His response to "why me?" 👉 "Why NOT me?"
This preview episode hits different. Full episode drops next week.
Listen: [https://tinyurl.com/podmasana-p7]
#Podmasana #CancerSurvivor #Yoga -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@podmasana/115961716008661551
ICYMI: Joe McClernon's story will stop you in your tracks.
A carpenter turned yoga teacher. Stage 4 prostate cancer. Gleason 10. Given 1.5-5 years to live.
That was 6 years ago.
His response to "why me?" 👉 "Why NOT me?"
This preview episode hits different. Full episode drops next week.
Listen: [https://tinyurl.com/podmasana-p7]
#Podmasana #CancerSurvivor #Yoga -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@podmasana/115961716008661551
ICYMI: Joe McClernon's story will stop you in your tracks.
A carpenter turned yoga teacher. Stage 4 prostate cancer. Gleason 10. Given 1.5-5 years to live.
That was 6 years ago.
His response to "why me?" 👉 "Why NOT me?"
This preview episode hits different. Full episode drops next week.
Listen: [https://tinyurl.com/podmasana-p7]
#Podmasana #CancerSurvivor #Yoga -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@podmasana/115961716008661551
ICYMI: Joe McClernon's story will stop you in your tracks.
A carpenter turned yoga teacher. Stage 4 prostate cancer. Gleason 10. Given 1.5-5 years to live.
That was 6 years ago.
His response to "why me?" 👉 "Why NOT me?"
This preview episode hits different. Full episode drops next week.
Listen: [https://tinyurl.com/podmasana-p7]
#Podmasana #CancerSurvivor #Yoga -
"Why not me?" When doctors gave Joe McClernon 1.5-5 years with stage 4 cancer, he asked that instead of "why me." 6+ years later, he's still teaching yoga & spreading hope. Preview episode this Wednesday, full episode next week. #Podmasana #Podcast #CancerSurvivor #wisdom #spirituality #cancer #hope