Category: My lymphoma and related medical stuff

So, seems to have gone well. Done at Hudson Valley Hospital, which is also where I had my knee surgery 11 years ago. Have to put in a variety of drops in my right eye for the next several weeks, including one that goes for six weeks. and right now my pupil is still dilated.…

January 16th was the tenth anniversary of my autologous (given my own previously harvested stem cells back) transplant. (If you hit that link you'll see what is probably not the greatest picture of me.) The stem cells then rebuilt my immune system which was compromised by my prior six days of high dose chemotherapy. That…

Not that this is a surprise – it's been shown in other studies. The new analyses reviewed previous studies of spirituality involving more than 44,000 cancer patients altogether. The studies varied in many ways, but religion and spirituality were associated with better health regardless of specific religion or set of spiritual beliefs. A sense of…

An interesting study (in mice, but still interesting!) of exercise, chemotherapy, and tumor growth. From the NY Times. How Exercise May Aid Cancer Treatment In a new study involving mice, aerobic exercise slowed the growth of breast cancer tumors and made the cancer more sensitive to chemotherapy. The results raise the possibility that exercise may…

Not really funny at all. From the Guardian (UK). Waste from the 700 climbers and guides a year who attempt to scale the mountain is becoming a health hazard Climbers spend weeks acclimatising around the four camps set up between the base camp at 5,300m (17,380ft) and the 8,850m-high (29,035ft) summit. The camps have tents…

I posted this interesting article yesterday NY Times: "How Exercise Keeps Us Young" and now here's an article from the Express (UK). Daily walk adds years to your life: Just 20 minutes a day is enough

Nine years since I checked in. I posted about this anniversary in 2008, with some additional links here – Time flies when you're having fun: Today is second anniversary of start of my twenty day stay at Sloan Kettering This was for my "high dose" chemotherapy, aiming to kill any remaining surviving cancer cells from…

Well. I suppose that was my lymphoma.This was reported by Reuters, NBC, AOL, and a whole bunch of of other outlets. Plain old bad luck plays a major role in determining who gets cancer and who does not, according to researchers who found that two-thirds of cancer incidence of various types can be blamed on…

Well, he's a better man then me… From the Telegraph (UK). Hit the link forthe whole article – it's a quick read – pretty amazing. British grandfather celebrates beating three types of cancer in a year with trek to South Pole Doctors operated almost immediately, removing parts of his large and small intestines, stomach muscles…

Pretty good and detailed feature in yesterday's NY Times. Women – as everyone knows – are tougher then men. For Pregnant Marathoners, Two Endurance Tests When Paula Radcliffe won the New York City Marathon in 2007, nine months after giving birth to a daughter, Isla, Radcliffe was considered an anomaly. Her intense training through her…