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Life With Cancer: The Biggest Fear Is People Finding Out What My Fears Are.

If you are reading this, this has been revised a few times, the benefit and the curse of writing over a few days. However, it points out that while today influences tomorrow, you don’t just stop there, you keep on going, learning, revising, and understanding. I started this post out about a month ago. That is unfortunately the way my mind and my focus works at times anymore. I get what I think is…

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Life With Cancer: The Biggest Fear Is People Finding Out What My Fears Are.

If you are reading this, this has been revised a few times, the benefit and the curse of writing over a few days. However, it points out that while today influences tomorrow, you don’t just stop there, you keep on going, learning, revising, and understanding. I started this post out about a month ago. That is unfortunately the way my mind and my focus works at times anymore. I get what I think is…

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#Craig Shoemaker #David Uosikkinen #David Uosikkinen&039;s In The Pocket

Six Years Removed And Still Relevant: After Home Video

This is a melancholy anniversary. This is six years since my last day with TLA Video as they decided to start phasing out the physical brick and mortar stores that I was so proud of and worked so hard to keep relevant and powerful (and succeeded for many years). This marked the end of 27 years in the home video industry that is such a proud time and memory for me. At the time, it was a sad…

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My Day At Chemo ~ The Ballad Of Ol' Doc Zeger

My Day At Chemo ~ The Ballad Of Ol’ Doc Zeger

Today was #chemo day up at Lankenau. This is every other Wednesday for now. It is actually my version of going to work for the day, seeing great “co-workers”, planning things out, working in tandem with a “crew” to achieve goals, and waiting for lunch time. It was a good day, and as usual, it included an appointment with my personal god, my rock star, my hero, Dr. Zeger. We had to see what new…

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#Avastin #cancer #Chemo #Craig Shoemaker #Graham Alexander #Kidney Cancer #Lankenau Hospital #Louis Armstrong #National Cancer Survivors Day #Retro Roadmap #The Hooters

National Cancer Survivors Day ~ Thriving Day.

It’s a good day. In general and also for a special reason. The sun is shining, Summer is almost here, and for me and many others, it is National Cancer Survivors Day. For me, it is a day to realize all that I have far outweighs all that I could lose one day. As you can tell by blowing the dust off and sweeping away the cobwebs from my blog, I haven’t written much on my blog over the last few…

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John Lennon: I heard the news that day, oh boy.

I heard the news that day, oh, boy. On the night of December 8th, 1980, I was driving along Haverford Ave and was stopped at a red light at College Ave, near Haverford College. I was heading home to Overbrook from my shift at the Wayne Acme Market. I was listening to Famous56 WFIL radio.

I heard the news that day, oh boy. As I sat at that light, the news came over that John Lennon had been…

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#John Lennon #The Beatles

59th Birthday Bridge Song: Hello Lamppost

Always start with a joke…

“How about those 2014 Grammy nominations?”

OK, then do a little song… http://youtu.be/DFHs-dIqYFc

Now you have your blog audience in the palm of your hands. You can start now (and drop the 3rd person style, it’s a cliché.)

Today, December 6th, is my 59th birthday. That’s not a normal milestone birthday but for me, this year, it is. I’ll try not to get too heavy here but…

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#Cliff Hillis #Craig Shoemaker #David Uosikkinen #Jim Boggia #Kidney Cancer #Philly Music #Play It Forward Philly #ZouZou Mansour

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The crimes against this young Chester County boy go beyond human comprehension. Someone not of this Earth must have committed the torturous, murderous acts against Scotty McMillan. It couldn’t have been a man or a woman. It must have been someone, something, purely evil.

I can’t stop...

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A Cinematic History of 007: 52 Years of James Bond

Hump Day has lost it's meaning for Swiper Doxy. #dachshund

A Wayback For My Brother Tommy's 44th Birthday.

A Wayback For My Brother Tommy’s 44th Birthday.

This was originally written in 1999. It was written shortly after he was diagnosed with kidney failure and spent over four years on dialysis. He had a successsful kidney transplant in 2004. When this was written, he had not yet started his decade long love affair with Kelly Ripa. At this time, he actually had a crush on Kitty Carlisle, of all people.

I sat with my brother Tommy and asked him what…

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#Barry Manilow #Family #Gene Hart #Philadelphia Daily News #Tommy Hickman #WPHL 17

For My Dad: On What Would Have Been His 91st Birthday

Below are links to previous blog posts about my Pop. Please read at least one to understand why he was so special to me and why, as I battle both a progressive lung disease and the aftermath a my radical nephrectomy for kidney cancer, I’ll always turn to my Pop for reasons to keep laughing and keep living.

If you hear me say something or see me do something, chances are I learned that from my Pop.

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#Dad #Pop #Richard Hickman

Hitting the hay, but leaving you w/a sweet version of Macca's WARM ANDBEAUTIFUL by @linusdotson

#music #spotify

MONEY IS FOR CHOCOLATE AND THE ZITS ARE FREE: THE RETURN OF MY KIDNEY CANCER

I think the old adage goes “write from what you know”. If that’s not an old adage, it should be.

So, taking my own sage advice, passed down through the ages by everyone and no one, here goes nothing.

First of all, the Philadelphia Phillies are making me have a big sad. I love baseball, and yes, I still love my Phillies, but as of right now, they are eleventeen games below .500 and are probably…

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#Beat Up Guitar #Craig Shoemaker #David Uosikkinen #Dunder Mifflin #Dunderder Mifflin Allentown #Haverford Springfest #Havertown PA. Hersheys Kisses #ILD Lung disease #In The Pocket #iradiophilly #Kidney Cancer #Torisel

#music #spotify

My Other "Mother" On Mother's Day. My Sister, Julie.

My Other “Mother” On Mother’s Day. My Sister, Julie.

Tomorrow I will honor my mother, but today, I want to honor in advance the person who has become almost as much of a mother to me as my own Mom.

That is my sister Juliana Hickman Guaraldo. Many of you know, but many can only begin to imagine the impact she has on all of our lives, especially mine during my illnesses. The compassion, the knowledge, the caring, the love that she offers, despite…

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Rebooting My Blog Yeah, it's been a while since I've written something. Call it focus, call it writer's block, call it whatever cliche you want to.

#David Uosikkinen #Hooters

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