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Medium Times: The C word
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011. Lately I've been noticing how people tend to avoid using the word cancer around me. Why is this? They ask 'how is your health? Or 'how is your medical condition? Friends, I'm fairly certain that saying cancer doesn't give you cancer. You're not going to hurt my feelings either. It's not like I don't think about cancer all day, every day as it is, so you won't unintentionally remind me that I'm sick. "OMG - did you just say cancer? 22 March 2011 at 18:50. View my complete profile.
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Medium Times: Chemotherapy Round 12: The Grande Finale
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011. Chemotherapy Round 12: The Grande Finale. Well now, that's done with then. Six months of fortnightly injections of cytotoxic chemicals. Hair loss, a blood infection, a hospital stay, a less-than-expected amount of vom. 8 pounds of gained steroids weight. Every episode of Mad Men, Father Ted and Black Books. 100 levels of angry birds. The end of 6 months of feeling like crap all the time? Joanne Mcleod and Hal Johnson would be okay with it. 28 April 2011 at 17:47. Chemotherapy Ro...
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Medium Times: February 2011
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Friday, 25 February 2011. Chemotherapy Round 7: WTF? I've learned two things from this. First, chemo should not be underestimated or it will get angry. Second, once you get Night Fever. By the Bee Gees into your head it will take you FOREVER to get it out. Monday, 14 February 2011. The power of positive thinking. In my corner of the world spring is just about here. Flowers are blooming, the grass is green, the days are longer. So maybe it's time to think positive. I mean cancer can't be all. Since gettin...
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Medium Times: May 2011
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011. Anyways, here are two images they took. Look at my head! Amazing. In the top view picture you can see my brain, looking foldy and clever. There is also something heart shaped in the middle. I don't think it's my heart, but it's kind of cute. You're alright brain. The next one is the important one. It shows my neck in profile, with no lumpy lymph nodes to worry about. It kind of looks like me too, if I was a backup dancer in that Robbie Williams video. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Medium Times: December 2010
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Tuesday, 28 December 2010. Hey everyone, it's my first cancer Christmas! If cancer can be beaten by overindulging in roast goose and Ferrero Rochers then I'll consider myself cured. No one told me cancer and I were exchanging gifts this year, and I got nothing for cancer but received peripheral neuropathy. Please, use my fingertips. They feel no pain. Tuesday, 21 December 2010. One of the good things about chemo is that it gives you some practice at being old. A few months ago I was hauling a 50 poun...
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Medium Times: Cutbacks
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Wednesday, 6 April 2011. In this era of austerity, cutbacks are everywhere you look. Where I live the government is gutting higher education, reducing funding to social programs, and generally wrecking society in a ham-fisted and ill-thought out way. In a move of solidarity my body has decided to embrace this spirit of thrift by cutting back on eyebrows by 50%. Not to worry though friends. I found a website that sells replacement eyebrows. To cancer patients made with real human hair. For only $45! Simpl...
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Medium Times: April 2011
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011. Chemotherapy Round 12: The Grande Finale. Well now, that's done with then. Six months of fortnightly injections of cytotoxic chemicals. Hair loss, a blood infection, a hospital stay, a less-than-expected amount of vom. 8 pounds of gained steroids weight. Every episode of Mad Men, Father Ted and Black Books. 100 levels of angry birds. The end of 6 months of feeling like crap all the time? Joanne Mcleod and Hal Johnson would be okay with it. Friday, 22 April 2011. Have pointed out...
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Medium Times: November 2010
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Wednesday, 24 November 2010. Until two weeks ago if you asked me what chemotherapy was I would have told you it was some kind of medicine you give bald kids in hospitals. I've figured out a few more things since then which I'll share with you. First, 35 year old hairy men get chemo too. Second, the term chemotherapy encompasses dozens of treatments consisting of different cocktails of anti-cancer drugs. I started my treatment yesterday with the ABVD. The photo above illustrates roughly what goes on in a ...
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Medium Times: Tiger, tiger
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Friday, 22 April 2011. Recently, I have developed stripes. Three of them, about 10 cm long across my right bicep. They are dark streaks of skin made extra visible by my pasty white British-ized arms. I find this most interesting. As the good people at the lymphoma forum. Anyways, one more chemo treatment to go. Peripheral neuropathy is still there, but I've been taking Glutamine supplements on the suggestion of one of the readers. Hopefully I'll start to see some improvement. View my complete profile.
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Medium Times: January 2011
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Sunday, 30 January 2011. What would Spock do (WWSD)? A colleague visiting from Japan brought me a nice single malt whisky this week, which is very timely since my whisky collection took a serious and unforeseen hit a few months back. I'll tell you how it happened, since you asked. Have you ever wondered what you would do if you were told you might only have a few months to live? Or maybe finding a quiet mountaintop and meditating on the meaning of life is more your thing? Wednesday, 19 January 2011.
