Fighting Stage 4
Fighting stage 4 prostate cancer
Category: Positivity
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Having a period of time off work for my cancer treatment allowed me a lot of time for self-exploration. Initially the goal was to find the silver bullet for the cancer. But there is no silver bullet, and I became focused on the marginal gains – anything and everything that would allow my body to…
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Yesterday was Cancer Survivors Day. 19 years ago today I lost my Mum to cancer. She was 54. I found a letter from her recently. She was sending me a document and couldn’t miss “the opportunity of an envelope going to [me] without putting a note in it”.
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If you could design one day to show the best of what Britain could be, I challenge you to design something better than the London Marathon. I’m not just talking about the elites who seem to keep pushing the boundaries of human possibility.
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When I was first diagnosed with aggressive, advanced, Stage IV prostate cancer, I was told it was incurable but that we should be able to managed it as a chronic disease for years (but not decades). I didn’t really know what that meant, but I am beginning to get an insight and I thought I…
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I keep seeing posts about “Blue Monday”. Personally, I am feeling pretty pumped about what 2026 may bring.
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As part of my “Above Average” series, I am using golf to enhance health and foster professional relationships. After almost retiring from the sport, I am doubling down to improve my handicap, while balancing personal wellness with networking opportunities. I will utilize virtual platforms for practice and family engagement.
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My brother and I taught ourselves squash during university holidays — a slightly healthier form of brotherly bonding than our usual diet of computer games and Games Workshop. Now, it’s in my plan to get “Above Average” to help me fight my stage 4 Prostate Cancer. Squash was about as “cool” as Games Workshop in…
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As part of my series to use exercise to control my prostate cancer (Can I get “above average” with Prostate Cancer?) one of my key goals is to improve my running. I’ve never had a great relationship with running. I did the Paris Marathon in 2011 in an attempt to see if I could get…
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This is the big one – the core goal. Everything else is icing on the cake, or trying to get fun at the same time as fitness. Long-term hormone therapy means my muscles will waste away, and I’ll gain fat even more easily than before (and that was already remarkably easy for me). Okay, there’s…
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I love cycling, there is a sense of freedom and childlike exhilaration from riding your bike, although I am a real coward on the downhills. So cycling was always going to be part of my fitness arsenal in the fight against cancer. Let me start first though, with a debunking. After being diagnosed with my…
Fighting Stage 4 