Author: bhansley

  • Year 2 Update

    It’s 2019, and some 19 months after my initial diagnosis, and things could not be going better – save the cancer just magically going away. The first-line treatment I’m on is still all about testosterone deprivation, called ADT. I’m on 3 overlapping meds for this – two orals and a monthly injectable. My PSA scores…

  • David vs. Goliath, part 1

    One of my bucket list items, going all the way back to my Uncle David Turner taking me for a flight in his Piper (Cherokee? Comanche?) when I was six. I just fell in love. (I remember being disappointed then that his plane wouldn’t do loops or rolls.) I got a little more enamored of…

  • It's Movember and I'm on a Mission!!

    I’m launching a fundraiser for the Movember Foundation for the month of November. The Movember Foundation does great work with men’s health issues: prostate and testicular cancers,  and mental health and suicide prevention. They’re funding a Prostate Cancer Research Study that I’m participating in that is trying to correlate care decisions and changes in care to…

  • So, yeah… cancer.

    HansleyLove hasn’t posted in a while because this particular blog entry needed to be written and published. It took a while to process and share publicly. Here’s the story. ———————– Starting in Fall 2017, I started having random bone aches and pains. At the time, I chalked most of it up to getting older and…