Cancer diagnosis

The year 2025 was an interesting one for me in regards to my health.  Even though this is old news, I am leaving this page online so that those who are coming to this site in regards to a cancer diagnosis can read the truth.

  • In early 2025, I was given a diagnosis of colon cancer.  Though the diagnosis truly was given, leading me to give up my dream and drop out of the mayoral race for Albany, it was a mistaken diagnosis.  A serious mistake.  It’s a mistake that happens all too often, but I hold no ill towards anyone involved with it.
  • Though it was not cancer, it was in fact a severe bowel obstruction, something that has been resolved, leading me to be in a state of relatively good health.
  • In December of 2025, I had a VNS device implanted, something that will reduce the number of seizures that I have and that will also lessen the severity of any further seizures that may happen.  Through the use of proper medication and through the device, seizures will no longer control my life.

My mistaken diagnosis cost me dearly.  I truly believe that I would have won the election given all the great ideas that I had for tearing Albany down and then building it back up, better than ever.  Sadly, a black person will be mayor and that means nothing but bad news for the city.  However, I fully intend to run in the next mayoral election.

During the time that I thought I had cancer, I decided to forego any form of treatment as chemotherapy is a rough thing and I am not built to handle challenges.  I was ready to just let things happen and if death occurred, then so be it, with no fight from me.

Given that I thought I had nothing to lose, I took up drinking and smoking again.  I also did things like stop looking before crossing a street and I enjoyed a skydive or two.  Once things got sorted out, I put a halt to all of that, never to drink or smoke again.  And I sure as hell won’t ever be in a plane again.

At no point during the cancer phase did I ever seek out or want financial contributions or other forms of help.  I did receive a few donations and they were all immediately sent back using the same method by which they were sent.  I am not a person who seeks out or accepts help in any manner.

I remain a DNR/MOLST patient.  The surgery to implant my VNS almost did not happen, because one of the conditions in my MOLST is that I am to receive no blood transfusion.  Whenever there’s surgery, blood is involved and I had to assert that I wanted to refuse blood if something were to happen.

I had to sign a lot of waivers and so forth, so the surgery went on, with the understanding that if a blood emergency occurred, there would be no medical intervention.  Clearly, the surgery was a success, so that issue did not come up.

This is bad news for my haters, but it seems that I am now healthy.