AnCan and The Marsh (well renown, long-established theater company with a large following in the Bay Area and venues in San Francisco and Oakland) collaborateevery 4th Wednesday of the month for Solo Arts Heal!
Are you ready for a jam packed show full of storytelling, life advice, laughter, and tears? Well, Geneva Norman will bring it to you.
Geneva is a Chicago-based storyteller and has been a student and actor at The Goodman Theatre, 2nd Story, Free Street Theater, About Face Theatre, The Looking Glass Theatre, and many others. The Goodman Theatre recruited her to be in their first cohort of storyteller teaching artists. She is also a vocalist, songwriter, musician, and music arranger. She has performed throughout Europe, including, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Poland, France, Spain, etc. She has performed with musicians along the west coast of Africa, traveling south along the Atlantic coast to South Africa, and in 47 of the 50 United States. She wrote the locally popular “Obama Vote Song” in 2007. She is the lead vocalist of the Geneva Convention Band and the G2 band. She has arranged many pieces of work throughout her career and is currently the creator and executive producer/director of “The Aretha Project- Chicago Tour”. Geneva comes from a musical family, notably the late Betty Wright, John Legend, and Kool and the Gang.
In her professional life, Geneva has served in progressive roles in clinical healthcare as a nurse, a nurse practitioner, and as a physician. She has survived her own serious health care issues and been a caregiver within her own family. She studied with Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who developed the theory of the five stages of grief. At Northwestern University, Geneva serves as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion vice chair for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She is also a proud mother and grandmother.
Geneva told the story of how she, an upper middle class, non-user of recreational drugs, became a pharmaceutical product development chemist/chef for her unsuspecting, streetwise husband.
Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, Aug 15, 2023
AnCan is grateful to the following sponsors for making this recording possible: Bayer, Foundation Medicine, Pfizer, Janssen, Myriad Genetics, Myovant, Telix & Blue Earth Diagnostics.
AnCan’s Prostate Cancer Forum is back (https://ancan.org/forums). If you’d like to comment on anything you see in our Recordings or read in our Reminders, just sign up and go right ahead. You can also click on the Forum icon at the top right of the webpage.
Editor’s pick: All his scans are saying it: cancer doesn’t live here anymore. (bn)
Topics Discussed
Scan after scan after scan says cancer’s gone; Dr. E gets her proxy hug; no biggie if blood tests are a bit out of range; multiday fasts; recalling Mark Horn; verdicts shift on maybe-metastasis; good experiences with Dr. Singh?; clinical trial prodding from docs; Medicare’s limit on “too many” scans; MSK protection against insurance denials; pelvic floor therapy miraculous for incontinence; spurning cabazitaxel and re-upping for docetaxel; moment of truth arriving as ADT fades; putting Dr. A in the driver seat; listing all the prostate drugs out there; making the new Wassersug edition affordable; solo darolutamide in his future; hidden blessings of an unseeable cancer; docs reconsidering radiation for gyncomastia; any test for PSMA avidity?; sucking on lemons but smiling as Pluvicto drops his PSA; Keytruda’s ups and downs; no PSMA, no point in Pluvicto; husband’s mets reach liver and pancreas.
Chat Log
AnCan – rick · 6:20 PM
That’s why we pay Dr. E the Big Bucks!!!
Julian – Houston · 6:26 PM
Amen!
TonyFig · 7:21 PM
Dr. Wassersug’s book has a couple of tables listing various drugs for different stages of treatment. Since that time, there have been many new approved drugs. Is there any table or listing of the various drugs we discuss on the calls?
Richard Wassersug · 7:30 PM
-Androgen Derpivation Therapy 2023 edition. First author Richard WASSERSUG
Richard Wassersug · 7:31 PM
richard.wassersug@ubc.ca
AnCan – rick · 7:41 PM
Not for a single dose of RT, Richard according to the cariologists we’ve spoken to
Richard Wassersug · 7:41 PM
Good to hear.
AnCan – rick · 7:42 PM
Left sided BCa RT is usually a much higher dose.
Len Sierra · 7:43 PM
I agree with Rick on the breast RT issue. My understanding is that RT to breast tissue for gynecomastia prophylaxis is low dose.
Richard Wassersug · 7:45 PM
Yes, but it is indeed being done less often here in Canada.
Richard Wassersug · 7:46 PM
Meanwhile I have to go. Thank you for letting me join you today.
Len Sierra · 7:47 PM
Thanks for coming!
Peter Gudel · 7:47 PM
I have to go… thanks to all
? · 7:47 PM
If you have Gynecomastia and BRCA you probably don’t want to do radiation because if you get breast cancer, they can no longer treat you fully with radiation
? · 7:48 PM
A real gotcha
Geoff · 7:50 PM
Should we (I) routinely get a FDG scan along with a PSMA scan? Or is it only an issue for Pluvicto patients?
Julian – Houston · 7:52 PM
Thanks guys – have to go.
AnCan – rick · 7:53 PM
For Pluvicto patients – this is the same issue of concordance
AnCan – rick · 7:54 PM
From Pat M …. I use Lemonhead candies to combat dry mouth and it excites the taste buds.
Pat Martin · 8:00 PM
Good night see you next week
AnCan – rick · 8:08 PM
https://pathology.jhu.edu/patient-care/second-opinions
Wendy · 8:56 PM
Here is video on aCaregiving and Coping with Ambiguous Loss https://www.youtube.com/live/iz4NgckybeY?feature=share
Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, Aug 7, 2023
AnCan is grateful to the following sponsors for making this recording possible: Bayer, Foundation Medicine, Pfizer, Janssen, Myriad Genetics, Myovant, Telix & Blue Earth Diagnostics.
NOTE: August schedule change for Tuesday meetings only – next meeting Aug 15
AnCan’s Prostate Cancer Forum is back (https://ancan.org/forums). If you’d like to comment on anything you see in our Recordings or read in our Reminders, just sign up and go right ahead. You can also click on the Forum icon at the top right of the webpage.
Editor’s pick: Mayo offers great docs… provided you select them. Otherwise ‘caveat emptor!’! (rd)
Topics Discussed
Recurrent VA patient lucks out at VA-SF; singlet vs doublet therapy; Dr. E gears up for The General; when to go back on HT .. and what HT exactly; PSA spikes after 2 pembros… that can happen!; Mayo fails to get it right around Pluvicto – or maybe it’s just the wrong doc; what’s the difference between LHRH/ADT drugs?; what type of RT is needed?; prostate area lights up – lungs do not??; stay away from the local uro and get back to the GU med onc
AnCan and The Marsh (well renown, long-established theater company with a large following in the Bay Area and venues in San Francisco and Oakland) collaborateevery 4th Wednesday of the month for Solo Arts Heal!
I had the absolute pleasure of filling in for Rick, and interviewing July’s gust Suzie Campbell!
Suzie is a single mom living in Evanston, IL with her two children and a cat named Magic. A Loyola University Chicago alum with a degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies, she now works as an IT manager for a non-profit company. She started telling stories about her life after her hysterectomy at 35 years old and has been seen at storytelling shows such as Story Colliders, Is this a thing? and Filet of Solo. Suzie shares stories that often show that reproductive journeys are not always linear, sexuality is not always straightforward, and that seeking support for mental health treatment – especially in relation to motherhood – isn’t something shameful. She believes if more people talk about these ideas openly, the stigma around them will decrease over time.
Suzie performed “Get F***ed,” a story about sexuality, dating, and her hysterectomy as a newly single mom in her mid-30s.
AnCan and The Marsh (well renown, long-established theater company with a large following in the Bay Area and venues in San Francisco and Oakland) collaborateevery 4th Wednesday of the month for Solo Arts Heal!
We are back with Solo Arts Heal, after a month off. Welcome June’s guest, Dan Baron!
Dan has been writing about social issues that impact people in underserved communities for more than 30 years. He writes content, grant proposals, and strategic communication plans for nonprofits, universities, and public agencies. He has also worked as a journalist. His work has mostly been about listening to the stories people tell about their lives as they advocate for better schools, safer communities, jobs, health care, and many other issues—including their basic human right to just be who they are.
Wait a minute… or more… Dan also realized long ago that he has many personal stories to tell, just like everyone else on the planet. He tells his life-changing story about being a 21-year-old college student overseas who suddenly has a manic episode. Dan is part of a growing community where people share stories that aim to be poignant, funny, bizarre, challenging, and real.
Dan shared his totally unexpected, way-up, way-down, bipolar experience as a college student in the 1980s—and how he has navigated his mental health journey since.
