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The Things I Thought About When My Body Was Trying to Kill Me Evergreen Podcasts
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5.0 • 23 Ratings
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There’s already plenty of good medical journalism where you can find out about diagnosis, treatment, the latest research…the science of fighting cancer. But if you’re one of the millions diagnosed, or helping somebody live with cancer, or come to terms with dying of the disease, you already know: There’s not always good information, not always good advice, about how to think through the fact that you might be dying, or how to think about how your life has been changed, if you live.
So I wrote one.
Sufferers, survivors, care-givers may all hear the stories I tell in slightly different ways. It’s a cancer memoir. I called it, “The Things I Thought About When My Body Was Trying to Kill Me.” Listen. Subscribe. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever done in more than 40 years as a journalist. I hope you’ll listen.
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Finding Out, or No News Is Bad News
In this episode, I'll tell you about the rough and life changing road I was on, feeling worse and worse as my career also unraveled. It took awhile to sink in, I was a sick man, but I needed to get some help to figure out just how sick.
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What's the Worst That Can Happen?
In this episode, I'll tell you about giving into the idea that I was really sick guy, and hearing those 3 momentus words, "you have cancer." Your life has just changed, and the end of your life may be a lot sooner than you had been counting on.
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A Calm and Furious Patient
In this episode, you've got cancer. Where is it? What is it? What am I gonna do now? Am I dying?
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Getting Alterations
In this episode, after a lifetime of staying out of hospitals as a patient, my streak ends. I've got a tag around my wrist, it's finally my turn. I'm getting alterations. And everybody knows what they have to do. The patient is in trouble, and at least for now, we have to tiptoe around that.
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The Fragile Family Man
In this episode, I've been opened up and my tumors are out but there is still so much that we do not know. I'm in the hospital and in no shape to leave. I'm a fragile family man.
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I Gotta Have Faith
If you're a guy who spent every Sunday morning of his life in Church for 6 decades, what does it mean to have all of it put to the test? Did it help? Did it change anything? I was really really sick. Did I have a prayer?
Customer Reviews
Honest storytelling
Fantastic.
Not to be missed!
Ray has a unique, thoughtful, intimate communication style that is perfect for this personal story that reverberates throughout all our lives. Highly recommend. And wish him a wonderful adventure and success in Shanghai!
Demystifying the journey
Thank you, Ray, for shedding new light on this all too common journey. Your personal accounts add important information and interpretations to what is not only a frightening, but a deadly serious series of events. As a caregiver, it has given me new insights to what my spouse was going through.