by Rick Ruppenthal

It’s four in the morning…#cancersucks

cell phone text to friend four in the morning

I am up early. I have a headache, slightly lightheaded and hungry and it’s four in the morning. Did you know there is a website devoted to “four in the morning“? Today is the day I get the radical prostatectomy done. After the consultation, research and many conversations of others that are ‘thrivers’, it was… Read More

by Rick Ruppenthal

#cancersucks  My Story – and it begins

cancer sucks in white on a black background

It’s late in the afternoon. The sun is shining and it’s unseasonably warm in our little town. I am early so I decide to kill some time by walking my new trusted companion around the block. Partly I didn’t want Willow to be in the warm truck too long and I didn’t want to sit… Read More