Shrinkage
Subtitle: manhood, marriage, and the tumor that tried to kill me
By: Bryan Bishop ; foreword by Adam Carolla
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781250039842
Subjects: Patients; Health; Cancer; Radio personalities; Television personalities; Biography
Table of contents: title: Breaking bald, or: a not-so-mini biography; title: Making ADHD pay, or: how I turned a disorder into a career; title: Falling in love, or: "will you stop talking please? I'm trying to kiss you"; title: Signs of trouble, or: "Christie, I'm sick"; title: Diagnosis, or: "whatever you do, don't google 'low-grade glioma'"; title: The worst phone call of my life, or: "Mom and dad? I have some bad news"; title: Telling Adam, or "o I won't be able to come to work on Monday"; title: Always bet on black, or: everything I know, I learned from watching Wesley Snipes movies; title: Dr. Black, or: the "rock" star brain surgeon; title: Dr. McHottie and Dr. Redneck, or: the rest of the dream team; title: The worst people I've ever met, or: my Mount Rushmore of douche bags; title: Best case scenarios, or: my trip to the sperm bank; title: Chemo, day one, or: a journey of a thousand miles; title: Radiation, or: "I wonder what she has"; title: My feel good playlist, or: "you've got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues"; title: Constipation and other early symptoms, or: when the shit doesn't hit the fan; title: Sobering news, or: announcing on the podcast; title: Barbara's house of healing, or: alternative therapies; title: "Rock" bottom, or: the day we lost our engagement ring; title: My bachelor party, or: I can't be the first guy to take chemo in a strip club can I?; title: Lies doctors tell you, or: "you're going to feel like a million bucks!"; title: Our wedding, or Michael Jackson, simply red and glow sticks; title: Our honeymoon, or: the time my wife drugged me at a kids pool in Maui; title: Worsening symptoms, or: "you're not driving a car are you?"; title: My brother's wedding, or: "stuck in Lodi again"; title: Drew Brees, my secret admirer and poop, or: my greatest regrets; title: Physical therapy, or: koosh balls, crutches and brightly-colored shirts; title: "Sleepless nights" and "pain," or: christie's story; title: Avastin, or: the big gun; title: Inpatient therapy, or: the closest i ever got to a threesome; title: Family stress, or: save the drama for your mama; title: The exam of a lifetime, or: my next MRI; title: Laughs for bald Bryan, or: "baby, how?!"; title: Get busy living or get busy dying, or: Italy, razor blades, or: how a trip to COSTCO became my most life-affirming moment; title: Epilogue, or: postscript, afterword, coda, denouement, etc.