Lessons Learned From 4 Years Outside the Maze

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Life’s been a real mixture of things for today’s poster.

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Meanwhile, his wife left a start-up she was closely involved in building. Lots going on, right?

It has been a hell of a year! I am truly elated to be here. I spontaneously decide to write this post in my head as I jog along. Today couldn’t be a more perfect fit.

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The Worst Year…

I started off year 4 last October thinking about relationships and mission quite a bit. How can I make both a bigger priority in my life? As I carefully stacked these dominoes and considered the pretty design that I could build, suddenly a big snarling dog busted in and tore up the room slobbering all over everything.

Oh well, all you can do is laugh…but not really. I found out in early December 2021 that I had testicular cancer. By mid-December, I had been through surgery and found out that it had metastasized into my abdomen as well.

Rather than focusing on optimizing my relationships and considering lofty coffee-sipping ideas like “mission,” I had to quickly become a cancer expert and navigate the perverse payer and provider carny shell game that we call the US healthcare system like my life depended on it… it did. Soon I would become something of a zombie for a couple of months.

When I finished chemo, I couldn’t walk a city block without wheezing from exhaustion. I also found out that I had gained weight while eating to stave off nausea and my liver enzyme levels had spiked to levels that indicated early-stage liver failure right after treatment.

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