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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...

Cancer can often lead people to double down on their lifestyle choices and commit to changing their diet or exercising more. Some changes may stick while others may not -...

It was recently the 2nd year of my 'stomaversary' - two whole years of living with "Sally" (my stoma), and I guess in that time I have become a little...

If you have been diagnosed with bladder cancer and you are reading this, you are a survivor. This is an important milestone. Find a way to celebrate and embrace your...

I am a truck driver. I drive a local run with a tanker. The sites where we unload did not have any washrooms. We did not have access to any facilities after an...

We all know that bladder cancer is evil. We know how it wears us down to our breaking points and takes away from our inner calm. But I have learned...

Physical health is celebrated. Every corner has a gym. Every celebrity is pushing someone’s weight-loss products. Our phones are set to count steps and make suggestions on how to get...

In my job as an oncology social worker, I have the privilege of being part of a palliative care team but find that many people do not really know what...

When your loved one is diagnosed with cancer, everyone’s world is turned upside down. Understandably, the cancer patient becomes the priority – their needs, their treatment, their worries, and their...

Flash is a Basset. A 12-year-old, spoiled rotten, rescue Basset. I think he started in Arizona. I am not sure how he got to Indiana, but he did. In Indiana...

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...

There are two words I would have never associated with each other had it not been for a conversation with a bladder cancer fighter’s wife: "cancer" and "enough." We went...

Given today's scary statistics that 1 in 2 of us are expected to get cancer at some point in our lifetime, it comes as no surprise that we are all...

Small cell bladder cancer is officially known as small cell carcinoma of the bladder (SCCB) or as a poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma of the bladder. It is a rare epithelial...

When I talk about isolation, I want to be clear: I am talking about isolation in the sense of a feeling. I am not suggesting any blame be placed. I...

"I want to share my story but don't know how to start." If this sounds like you, you're not alone. I've heard people say this quite often in the bladder...

Editor’s note: Anita lives in the UK, so some of the terms and laws referenced in this article are not necessarily identical to laws in the US. However, most of...

The relationship between bladder cancer and smoking has typically been investigated and tied to the smoking history of the patient. But there is now research suggesting that secondhand smoke also...

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...

“Survivor's guilt” is defined as “when someone doesn’t believe that they should be alive after surviving a traumatic event when others did not.” It was most commonly seen in Holocaust...