Question for Bernie: I am a mental health professional and have a client who states that after undergoing back surgery, they have not been the same person since. Could you tell me what your experience is with this problem? I … Read More
Question for Bernie: I have been diagnosed with Stage 0 breast cancer-DCIS & LCIS. I am making the choice to have a mastectomy. My doctors are recommending tamoxifen for 5 years to prevent a recurrence of cancer. I am VERY … Read More
Question for Bernie: With all due admiration and respect, I ask for your input on my current situation. I am 56 years-old, and two nights ago found myself the subject of an “intervention” by my brother and sister (59 and … Read More
Is pain necessary in life? No one can avoid it. Even the most intellectual of us are not exempt from it. But the wise understand that there is more in living than suffering, that life can only attract more life. … Read More
Question for Bernie: Hello and thank you so much for being available!! To put my several questions into one I guess I’d ask: How does a person still new to bladder cancer (i.e., diagnosed in May) plan her future when … Read More
Question for Bernie: Not a question – a “Thank You” all the way from New Zealand. My wife Nicki is still with us, probably shouldn’t be having suffered with brain tumors and strokes and so on for over 20 years … Read More
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. –Helen Hayes In 1989, my father was diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach … Read More
Question for Bernie: What are your thoughts about “frozen shoulder” (sometimes called adhesive capsulitis) which so many women eventually face? Do you feel there is a particular psychosocial element to it or do you think it is primarily mechanical? Thank … Read More
Question for Bernie: So Bernie, let me tell you what happened on Saturday. Just to recap, I was stressing about my husband’s new diabetic diagnosis and feeling anxious and fearful. You told me to stop living in the imagined future, … Read More
Question for Bernie: My mother has been sick for many years on and off. It first started with breast cancer back when I was in high school. She beat it and was fine for about 6 years. Then for the … Read More