Carmen's' Story

Healing Blessings to everyone. For me, writing is therapy, and even more so when I do it in rhyme as it really makes me concentrate more fully on what I am trying to say. So most of 'My Story' about our journey is written in rhyme and I will continue to add more as time goes on.

It has helped with my emotional and spiritual healing to be able to put all this down on paper. I am here for anyone who might need to talk to me...man or woman, husband or wife, sister, mother, brother, etc...no one ever has to go through this alone.

Prostate Cancer - His Body, Our Heart

(A Wife's Perspective)

by Carmen Sanchez Bezzard

(November 2001)

It was a cold, dark day in November when the black dragon came,

The sun may have been shining, but my world turned dark just the same.

And if for me the clouds appeared and covered my soul with fear.

Then what must my precious husband have felt when those words he first did hear.

"The results are in, it is not good news; the biopsy has been returned."

"You have an aggressive tumor and it is malignant, that much we have learned."

" PSA of 19, Gleason, three + five; which equals a very high score of eight."

"Your stage is T3 to T4, this is serious and you really shouldn't wait."

If my world is spinning, and I am at a lost to know which way to turn,

What must Dale be feeling right now - to run away, does he yearn?

I want to bury my head in the sand; I want to turn back time.

If I could, I would take it all away, why can't this cancer be mine?

I have watched him go through so much pain; with heart ailments over these years.

I honestly thought there was nothing left to move me to such tears.

I thought thirty years was a very long time to share love; to laugh and to cry.

But I realize with what we are facing now, thirty years is just a blink of an eye.

(To read the rest of my story please click the link below)

Carmen's Story

Wishing you health, warmth and many peaceful moments.