I’ve been writing and rewriting my thoughts approximately ‘reminiscence’ after I came throughout a song known as “I Remember You” by way of Frank Ifield, recorded within the early 1960’s. I hit the (writing) wall… Till nowadays.

I lately published to Facebook, a note that I were Cancer FREE for 5 years. The responses to that publish have had my mind spinning like a dreidel all day.

My thoughts have run through reminiscences of losing two of my brothers to cancer, Robert Lynn Coons in 1994, at age forty seven and Michael Edward Coons in 2012, at age 56, as well as uncles, aunts, cousins and different buddies. In the case of my brothers, their cancers were widely spread by the time they had been recognized. We don’t know if it blanketed Prostate Cancer. It even hurts to look that in print. Virtually anybody I understand and truely most of those folks who clicked on “Like” or commented on that submit, have family contributors, near and distant and buddies, whom they have also misplaced to cancer. Seeing that I even have survived* it, had to harm those whose circle of relatives participants and friends did no longer. I in no way take that survival with no consideration. Not ever.* Whatever triggered cancer to invade my body could cause it once more, best now not in the equal manner. I’m extra conscious now, but as George Carlin may say, ‘Just because the monkey is off you back, does not suggest the circus has left city’.

I ask you; plead with you to be more aware than I changed into. The diagnosis of present Prostate Cancer got here to me through one of these serendipitous events which grew from what I concept changed into a different physical hassle. I had annual physicals and realized after the reality that my PSA have been climbing over the 3 preceding years. I had seen it but did now not technique the records.

On the morning of January 2, 2010 Louisa, Seven and I had been strolling in Washington Park. It turned into very cold and there was snow at the ground, just like nowadays; not anything uncommon about that. Louisa stopped to speak approximately puppies with a gentleman who changed into additionally on foot his dog. At a few factor I found out that I became unsteady. I felt that, if I tried to move I might fall. When they finishing traveling, Louisa began to walk and stopped, asking me what turned into incorrect. I said that I didn’t suppose I ought to circulate without falling. She walked me to a bench and sat with me. She stated I had no symptoms typically related to a stroke. After a couple of minutes, possibly 5, I were given up and walked a few with her. I felt very well, but become shaken enough to agenda an appointment with a medical doctor. The go to and the subsequent journey, began on January five, 2010.