An Unintended Journey

About the Book

A Prostate Cancer Patient’s Story Dick Grannan recently completed an unbelievable, exciting, life-threatening journey that is quickly becoming prevalent for thousands of men. He wants them to know what it will be like, and to encourage them to remain hopeful even when tempted to despair. He writes a narrative account of his personal experience with prostate cancer. The book follows a logical progression starting with the discovery of a medical problem, the long struggle to find answers, total submission to treatments, and the end result. It is written as a type of journal to ease the reading and expose the logic of events. It is open and frank and reveals what went on in his mind while he waited for long periods in over crowded hospitals, submitting to embarrassing bodily probes and countless hours in today’s high-tech machines. This book is unique and appears at the right moment in history as the boomers join the ranks of the senior citizens. Books of this nature are few in number. Men must have the opportunity to be intellectually, but also emotionally prepared to accept the challenge of prostate cancer. An Unintended Journey will fill that void for the reader.

About the Author

Dick Grannan, a retired dean from Seneca College in Toronto, spent a lifetime working with young people, in both the university and college setting. A community activist for years, he was a chair of the first Race and Ethnic Relations Committee in Toronto, a director of a condominium board, and a founding member of the Toronto Training Board. He worked with the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Commissioners of the Police to develop the first major North American Police Force Race Relations Policy. An avid down hill skier and sailor, he also plays rhythm guitar in a small band called ‘The Ancient Mariners’.