About Lloyd Martin
A Survivor Man
It's on now. So was my attitude, and so was my determination to pull myself up from buttress of the tree. I could be defined down on the ground after diagnosis and surgery from Prostate Cancer, but knew I had to get back in the foliage.
I migrated to the USA in 1988 from Jamaica. I was one who didn't have to come to America but nevertheless I did. I had a successful career in teaching in Jamaica and as an association's representative of two hundred and forty people, at the University of The West Indies, Mona Campus, and an employee, the sky was the limit for me. Upon arrival in the United States I pursued a line of financial services from insurance products to residential and commercial mortgages. I worked for companies such as Metropolitan Life and Surety Life moving up the ranks from Sales Representative to Area Manager. In 1998 I started my own Mortgage company and continued in that vocation for 9 years.
Today I am a survivor man, living with my wife and two sons. It's on now epitomizes my fight to get back on a canting horse that didn't stop for me after the unceremonious fall from an otherwise firm perch. So be it It's on Now became the title of a volume of poems in a quiver with others of same sharp edges, that will till a mind and encourage a soul. Yes I survived Prostate Cancer. Say it if you will that it made me a poet of sorts or brought out the poet in me. indeed alongside Prostate Cancer and Me...or You, The Two Stages (Man to Man) (The book I wrote from the pitts of my pains and depression), is another volume of poetry entitled The Face of Faces. Indeed! the face that you see now may not be the face you see tomorrow or the one I wore yesterday, because it's on now! As I continue to be a survivor.
Take a look at the green foliage of the tree in the picture. I planted this tree just prior to my cancer diagnosis. This tree was just about to be flowered when I took this picture. I had to water and nurture this tree for it to be established and thrive, oh how much it reminds me of myself! As you read my blogs you will see that I am serious about surviving if not avoiding prostate cancer, an emasculating disease that knows no barriers but which affect Jamaican men the most. please read on and be enlightened and be informed. Thank you.
All three titles of my book used in this warfare are available for purchase in hard copies or electronic forms at Amazon.com.
I migrated to the USA in 1988 from Jamaica. I was one who didn't have to come to America but nevertheless I did. I had a successful career in teaching in Jamaica and as an association's representative of two hundred and forty people, at the University of The West Indies, Mona Campus, and an employee, the sky was the limit for me. Upon arrival in the United States I pursued a line of financial services from insurance products to residential and commercial mortgages. I worked for companies such as Metropolitan Life and Surety Life moving up the ranks from Sales Representative to Area Manager. In 1998 I started my own Mortgage company and continued in that vocation for 9 years.
Today I am a survivor man, living with my wife and two sons. It's on now epitomizes my fight to get back on a canting horse that didn't stop for me after the unceremonious fall from an otherwise firm perch. So be it It's on Now became the title of a volume of poems in a quiver with others of same sharp edges, that will till a mind and encourage a soul. Yes I survived Prostate Cancer. Say it if you will that it made me a poet of sorts or brought out the poet in me. indeed alongside Prostate Cancer and Me...or You, The Two Stages (Man to Man) (The book I wrote from the pitts of my pains and depression), is another volume of poetry entitled The Face of Faces. Indeed! the face that you see now may not be the face you see tomorrow or the one I wore yesterday, because it's on now! As I continue to be a survivor.
Take a look at the green foliage of the tree in the picture. I planted this tree just prior to my cancer diagnosis. This tree was just about to be flowered when I took this picture. I had to water and nurture this tree for it to be established and thrive, oh how much it reminds me of myself! As you read my blogs you will see that I am serious about surviving if not avoiding prostate cancer, an emasculating disease that knows no barriers but which affect Jamaican men the most. please read on and be enlightened and be informed. Thank you.
All three titles of my book used in this warfare are available for purchase in hard copies or electronic forms at Amazon.com.