Guy Wheatley

I grew up in the church. I was very active into adulthood. But somewhere around mid-life, I drifted away from the church. It wasn't an angry blowout or some monumental...

The rapidity of my admission and bladder cancer surgery was an eye-opening experience. I had a cystoscopy and biopsy then set a follow-up appointment late the following week. Hoping to...

Up until my bladder cancer, I rarely used drugs. I rarely even took aspirin, let alone morphine. But cancer will change many things in our life. In my case, it...

Stolen valor is the term for some nimrod who has never served his country and puts on a costume of a military nature with phony ribbons and citations. I use...

I suppose that title is a little misleading. Cancer is a monster that takes and kills. Any gift from my encounter with this malevolent force came from surviving it, not...

I hadn't been thinking about bladder cancer a lot until recently. During treatment, that's all I thought about. I thought about it for the next several months every time I'd...

Before a trip, when my children were young, my wife Sharon and I would ask them if they needed to go to the bathroom. Of course, being young children, they...

I’ve never been good at lying to my beautiful wife Sharon. Looking back, I recognize that changed a little with the diagnosis of bladder cancer. There were times during that...

Sitting in my hospital room, I couldn’t wait to get home. I envisioned myself back at home, as I had been before the neobladder replacement surgery. I think that, somewhere...

I had decided to face my bout with bladder cancer with grace and humor. I got quite a few laughs from friends, my doctors and nurses. Many people commented on...