When you're a metastatic cancer patient and you've lived beyond the “expiration date” some people may have quietly assigned you, two things can be true at the same time:

1) I’m grateful every day for the time I get to spend with people I love, to be out in nature, to do work that gives me meaning.

2) I carry the burden of pain and long-term side effects, along with a kind of grief that has no single source, always humming in the background.

But when the world wants to celebrate and shower you with confetti because you're still alive, sometimes you leave out the second part.

Sometimes you hide the burden.

This is what I talk about in my latest solo episode, #87 of the Man Up to Cancer Podcast.

If it resonates, give it a listen and follow the show so we can reach more men who are going through this.

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