I was born and raised in Philadelphia, and I played high school basketball at Frankford. In 1981, I started playing basketball for La Salle University.
My decades-long career working for companies involved in the healthcare industry took me all over the United States, from the Northeast, to the Midwest, to the South. Years later, so did my cancer treatment, eventually leading me at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
I was treated for prostate cancer in 2016, getting radiation therapy near where I live in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It worked for a while, but not long enough, because in 2022 my PSA level started going up again.
At 73, I’m totally invested in my health and vigilant about keeping up with my doctors’ visits. When I went to my primary care physician in 2020, he alerted me that my PSA level was up, an indication that I had a problem with my prostate. I know the normal range is from 1 to 4. Mine was 5.2. “We’ll take another PSA down the road,” the doctor said. We did another one, and that was 5.6.
