Dennis Golden

If you are dealing with blood cancer either as a patient or caregiver, there is a good chance you are well acquainted with something called stress. The bad news for...

Somewhere along the line, everyone comes face to face with overwhelming obstacles in their lives, along with full-blown life crises. It could arrive as a single event like a broken...

There comes a time when we realize that some things in life are not working. For me, that deep awakening occurred following a series of traumatic episodes. Strangely enough, a...

One of the best and most well-known hiking trails in the United States is the Appalachian Trail (AT). Starting at the top of Springer Mountain in Georgia, it terminates at...

A built-in and unconscious defense mechanism by which we refuse to recognize cold hard facts or experiences in our lives is called  Denial.   For better or worse, that built-in...

Hearing the words “you have blood cancer” sent chills up and down my spine. Soon after that, the same cold chill impacted every facet of my future life, including any...

I was relaxing in the sunroom one morning reading when the phone rang. The caller, on that occasion, turned out to be that all-too-familiar automated voice asking for confirmation on...

One of the more stressful discoveries surrounding my encounter with blood cancer, aside from the initial shock, treatment protocols, and the physical/emotional reactions to chemotherapy, was an awareness of a...

It is not easy to deal with a blood cancer diagnosis or the many treatments that follow.  And yes, it is so easy in the middle of treatment to quietly...

We have heard the joke about the 2 big certainties in life being taxes, and death. And while we can certainly avoid paying taxes for a while, eventually, the tax...

When I was first diagnosed with blood cancer my oncologist arranged for an infusion nurse to stop in to see me a day before any chemo treatments took place. It...

Getting the news I had blood cancer was a bit of a shock. And while I did not know it at the time, my not-so-good news would evolve into many...

In the book of Genesis 2:18, we find a quote saying, “It is not good that man should be alone.” A few centuries  later John Donne in his poem reminds us...

In 2020, one of the newly arrived church ladies approached me after the service and said, “You have a nicely shaped head and I wanted to just say ... you...

When you go through a blood cancer diagnosis and its many treatments, such as I have with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, it is very common to find yourself totally exhausted, drained, and...

Having been through blood cancer and experiencing six months of chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, and hormone therapy for another cancer, one of the many life lessons I have taken away from...

You can do and say pretty much anything you want, but over time, the truth always surfaces. No matter how you look at it truth owns every part of our lives...

As a blood cancer survivor, I have often asked myself if the many things I did in my youth led to my blood cancer diagnosis today. Did I have one too...