Patting the Shark: A Surfers Journey: Learning to Live Well with Cancer Baker Tim
Patting the Shark: A Surfers Journey: Learning to Live Well with Cancer Baker Tim A surfer's journey learning to live well with cancer Tim Baker was living the dream. That all changed on July 7,…
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Patting the Shark: A Surfers Journey: Learning to Live Well with Cancer Baker Tim
A surfer's journey learning to live well with cancer Tim Baker was living the dream. That all changed on July 7, 2015, when he was diagnosed, out of the blue, with stage 4, metastatic prostate cancer. A best-selling and award-winning surf writer with a beautiful family, a lifetime of exotic travel and a home walking distance to quality waves.
Tim writes candidly and with a raw vulnerability about this perilous journey through chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiation and surgery, and his own determined lifestyle strategies to maintain mind, body and spirit. So began a descent into the debilitating world of aggressive cancer treatments and a fight for a survival as brutal as any big wave hold down. Happily, surfing provided one of his most powerful forms of therapy, and writing about his experiences has proven deeply cathartic.
In 2020, 1.5 million men were diagnosed with prostate cancer