Dr. Patrick Walsh’s Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer
Edward M. Schaeffer (Author), Janet Farrar Worthington (Author), and Patrick C. Walsh (Author)
The ultimate book on the No. 1 men’s disease in the world…should be in every man’s home.” –USA Today
Dr. Walsh is widely regarded as the nation’s finest prostate surgeon…Very current…thoroughgoing primer on the disease, full of accessible but detailed explanations.” –Washington Post
Comforting, encouraging…a must-read for women, men, and families…tells you everything you need to know.” –Elizabeth Dole
Overview:
This new and revised guide covers every aspect of prostate cancer, from potential causes including diet to tests for diagnosis, curative treatment, and innovative means of controlling advanced stages of cancer.
As of 2022, an estimated 268,490 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. A high percentage of those will relapse. But the good news is that more men are being cured of this disease than ever before.
In a new and completely revised 5th edition, this lifesaving guide offers a message of hope to every man facing this illness, and the people who love them. Prostate cancer is a different disease in every man–which means that the right treatment varies for each person. Public awareness for this disease has transformed treatment and opened up new avenues of research; rapid advances in knowledge are being translated in new recommendations for management. In this book, Dr. Walsh et. al. will address such issues as:
- The genes involved in prostate cancer, genetic tests, and who should get them.
- The powerful effect of lifestyle changes to reduce pro-inflammatory and pro-insulin resistance environments, such as alcohol intake, physical activity, and BMI.
- What high-risk men (particularly African American men) need to know, and when to start screening.
- Treatment considerations for gay and bisexual men with localized prostate cancer.
- New information on testing and imaging.
- Your post-treatment life; how to stay healthy after treatment and manage the side effects of medication, and also how to support caregivers.
- Advice and support for coping with your diagnosis and learning how to live life beyond prostate cancer
Available in paperback or Kindle.
Where’s The Wine? And Other Questions
5.0 out of 5 Stars
“I loved this book. It was laugh out loud funny. I followed my husband from room to room, reading passages out loud.”
“Ms. Worthington slips much wisdom inside her gentle (and sometimes not so gentle) witty observations. This small (too small) book evokes lovely memories of Erma Bombeck–who would, I imagine, admire Ms. Worthington’s writing as we do.”
“Janet has done it again! This easy-to-read witty book actually made me laugh out loud! If you’ve ever been in line at the grocery store, owned a dog, felt sleep-deprived, or craved Cap’n Crunch, you’ll surely relate to the author’s everyday-life observations. If you met the Worthington family in Janet’s first book, Bumble Creek Farm, you will be glad to know the more things change, the more they stay the same — more entertaining stories!”
“Excellent! From her poignant recollection of the “Baltimore we love”—of diners and Barry Levinson, old Memorial Stadium and the “Os,” the original Mt. Vernon and Louie’s Bookstore Café, and not the fleeting news cycle of blue lights and nothing good happening after midnight, to her St. Patrick’s Day doughnut, to a spot on critique of the vocal aerobics that have turned our National Anthem into a tortured ballad, to her brilliant Haiku tribute to Sudafed, Janet takes us on a tour de force of Erma Bombeck meets Dave Barry vignettes that you’ll want to read from cover to cover. Her versatility in seamlessly transitioning from acclaimed medical writer to keen observer of the American condition is remarkable. Keep ‘em coming!”
These are reviews for the first edition. I expanded it for the pandemic.
Overview: It’s here, it’s happening, it’s now, it’s — not War and Peace! It’s just a happy little book. Sick of politics, strife, tension? I am, too! Life is short — not unlike this book — and it should be taken with a smile or two.
Happy little snapshots of home and family, animals with attitude, life in a small town, and finding the funny when everything seems crazy.
Available at Amazon.com
Bumble Creek Farm
5.0 out of 5 stars
“I read this at Starbuck’s and embarrassed myself with inappropriate laughter, caught off guard as a poignant vignette gave way to a riotous one. Beautiful story wonderfully written. The American family is alive and well, has a llama and neighbors from the Star Wars barroom scene. A compelling “can’t log off” narrative. I thought Ms. Worthington specialized in medical writing. Move over Dave Barry. I laughed…I cried…I Kindled.”
“Many people think oddballs are an urban phenomenon. Not true. I live in the part of the country that Janet Worthington writes about, and she is spot on with the quirky human characters. In fact, considering that city life is more constraining than living in the country, a good argument could be made that rural environs actually attract eccentrics . . . sort of the “California, the home of nuts” idea (because of westward movement in the past two hundred years). Take multiple animals and kids, a relatively inexperienced mini-farm couple, some spectacularly bad luck – how many people have had the horse they’re examining for purchase throw them, then step on top?!? – add determination to learn and overcome, and voilà: Bumble Creek Farm. The book reminded me of James Herriott’s All Creatures Great and Small, and yes, veterinarians do play a part here, as well. Of course they do, with horses, sheep, dogs (several small fish make cameo appearances), and the myriad ailments and trials that beset them and their humans. Wryly written, the book conveys the wonder of small-farm life and the family’s pulling together in setbacks, including those generated by neighbors. Brush fire, anyone? Oh, and skunks? Yup, skunks, too. Read Bumble Creek Farm! Especially if you’re a television producer. This one has “hit” written all over it. Remember “Green Acres”? BCF is much better.”
“Bumble Creek Farm is touching, well-written, funny, and enjoyable book about a transitioning time in author Janet Farrar Worthington’s life. As Janet and her husband move to a farm, her sense of humor takes you through the learning curve of dealing with animals, children, construction workers and odd, but nice, neighbors. I started and finished the book on a rainy Saturday afternoon and found myself caught up in her world for a few hours. It was a pleasurable visit.”
Overview: Meet Mark and Janet and their menagerie: Two young kids and a baby on the way, horses, dogs and a llama, escape-prone sheep, offbeat neighbors, and various construction workers laboring to renovate their ramshackle farmhouse. A delightful true account, told with love and humor by award-winning writer Janet Farrar Worthington, of her young family’s riotous adventures on their own “Green Acres,” as two urban professionals “who had no idea whatsoever what we were doing” start a farm in beautiful Horse Oak, Virginia.
Available as a paperback and also as a Kindle!
