Oh, Thank God I Have Prostate Cancer!
A Patient's View
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My book is entitled “Oh Thank God, I Have Cancer”. It is meant in this way: for many men, like me, the final “diagnosis” did not come out of the blue. I had been monitoring my PSA levels for ten years. For ten years the damn number would go up and down. I had a biopsy ten years earlier. So for me there was an agony of, all right, let’s get it over with already. “There are very few publications available from a patient's perspective that may help others confronted with having to decide on surgical treatment. In this book, you will learn about one man's personal experience with da Vinci robotic assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy for the treatment of his prostate cancer.” Dr. Matthew Bui, The key is this. I am alive, in good health, and have very little concern that my prostate cancer is going to be life threatening. So everything else becomes simply an issue to deal with and adjust to
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About the Book
When Harvey got the official diagnosis of prostate cancer he began scouring the Internet for information. What he found was an abundance of information on the disease and on treatment options. He then turned to friends who had recently been diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer. And even though these were old and close friends, he never really got a real sense of what he was about to go through. Men have a tendency of not being that open or conversational about these kinds of problems and their experiences. So he began keeping a diary, which eventually turned into this book. His hope is that it will help give some insight to the men that are about to look at mortality in the eye and help them through their personal experience of dealing with prostate cancer.
About the Author
The author, Harvey Silver, is in his mid sixties and still running hard and fast and in multiple directions -- occasionally at the same time. He was born in Minnesota and raised in Akron, Ohio. He has a BA from the University of Cincinnati and has a M.Ed. from Temple and was a Peace Corps Volunteer (1964-1966) in Brazil. His early career was in the non-profit world. Prior to going into business he was the Executive Director of the National Kidney Foundation of the National Capital Area. In 1981 he bought an employment agency franchise; later he started and ran with his wife of 42+ years, Susan, a temporary staffing company based in the DC area. He thought he had retired when he sold their business in 1999 only to find his son introducing him into the entertainment world in Hollywood. Harvey and Susan moved to Los Angeles and now reside in Brentwood. Together with his son Michael, he started SMG, a business and talent management company. He is an avid sailor and thanks to his daughter Claire and her husband John he has two beautiful and brilliant grandsons.