Tom Faranda's Folly

Author: Tom Faranda

  • Yanks Mojo Fizzles

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    OK. When your marquee player – the highest paid man in the game – bats 133 for the whole series, and your #5 hitter leaves eight men on base in the decisive game, you’ve got troubles. So I missed the boat with my Sept 20th post, Yankees – this year’s team of Destiny? But the…

  • Third chemotherapy session

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    My third chemotherapy session was last Tuesday, the 4th of October. So far, again not much in the way of side effects. I was able to have good gym sessions since then, and will go again later today. I do have some numbness in the tips of my fingers. Dr. Chia (the MSK oncologist I…

  • New Journaling Service

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    As you can see, I’ve moved my web journal service over to Typepad. Or rather, my brother Phil moved it over after I complained that Bloggerspot was a little too complicated to use. Bloggerspot is actually pretty easy to use (and free), but Typepad is idiot-proof, which is what I need. So suddenly I got…

  • Paul’s Last Rites

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    My brother Paul’s wake was Wednesday and the funeral Thursday. Thanks to the many friends who made the wake, the funeral, or who contacted us by phone, email, etc. And a special thanks to the boat-mates of Paul, from his crew days at Cornell, who made the Wednesday evening wake. Tony Johnson came from Ithaca.…

  • Paul Faranda, 1958-2005

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      Four days ago, Wednesday, September 28th, we got the news that my brother Paul had died. He’d missed his dialysis appointment and when they went looking for him, they found his body in the bathroom. He was 47. This is tragic and heartbreaking. We are all crushed. But it is not surprising. My brother…

  • More on chemotherapy

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    Today is the midpoint between my second and third chemotherapy treatments. I have a tiny bit of mouth soreness and very minor fatigue, but otherwise no negative effects (except for rapid hair disappearance). My initial chemotherapy – I’ve had two sessions with two more to go, and then the chemo will change – is called…

  • Chemotherapy and Hair update

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    Had my crew cut on Friday, and not a moment too soon! Tonite my youngest (much younger) brother Phil saw the cut and said "That’s not a real crew cut." I said "the barber set the electric cutter at one inch and that’s good enough for me." Well, just took a shower and the hair…

  • Spam Comments

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      Who’d a thunk it? After less than a week, I’ve already gotten some spam comments. "buy stocks", "build a website", "Wow what a great site – I’ve bookmarked it! Do you need an MPG player?" Will have to figure out how to delete them. Addendum. Figured out how to delete unwanted spam comments and…

  • Pending hair loss and bathroom repartee with #2 son

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    Hair started to go Thursday – yesterday morning. Perfect timing 16 days after my first chemo and two days after the second one. Just about as the docs and nurses predicted. I was in the shower at 7AM when some hair on my head started coming out. As I got out, in walked the 8…

  • Just got my copy of “The Catholic Radical”

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      Which is a little publication put out by the SS. Francis and Therese Catholic Worker house of Worcester, MA. Claire and Scott Schaeffer-Duffy have run a "House of Hospitality" with meals and sleeping arrangements for the down and out for over twenty years. Supporters have lived in the house, some for several years, but…