Both the NY Times Gain Reported in Combating Ovary Cancer – New York Times and the Washington Post Abdominal Treatment For Cancer Promising report this morning on a chemotherapy regimen that the National Cancer Institute is recommending. To quote from the Washington Post article: "…the National Cancer Institute is urging doctors to begin using the … Read more
Below is an excellent web posting. Coincidentally, since I am bashing the NY Times (see the post below this one) the author uses columns by NYT columnist Paul Krugman as his foil to highlight the Canadian shortcomings. The issue of how to provide and pay for healthcare is certainly a difficult one. Part of my … Read more
This takes the cake. I took it off the Donald Luskin website, which you can visit yourself by hitting the link on the left, "The conspiracy to keep you poor and stupid." The Hypocrisy of astonishing. THIS IS RICH… From TimesWatch: Business reporter/columnist Gretchen Morgenson loves corporate scandals, and she rounds up the year’s greatest … Read more
I spent more than a few days working through my resolutions and besides the obvious ones (be nicer to the wife, etc), one kept coming back to the front of my thoughts. I need to work with Tim to get him to really enjoy reading. He’s a good reader, but he doesn’t enjoy it. Joe … Read more
On December 23rd I wrote about people who’ve contacted me and either have mantle cell or have a relative or friend with it. Tom Faranda’s Folly: Postings and comments from other mantle cell patients, their family, and their friends I mentioned Faye, whose family had a weblog going about her treatment, that she’d had a … Read more
Well, a year that was really two tales. The first half was great – visits from friends we hadn’t seen in years (like Thom Hardy and his wife Mabvuto) – a great trip to Jamaica, where we had worked, met, and gotten married (our first trip back in 25 years, the introduction to Jamaica for … Read more
A few things to expand on from my last post. I will be in isolation, but here’s the set-up for the room: a desk, a built-in computer with internet access, a plasma TV and a DVD (not to mention, the bed and some chairs, cabinets, etc). This all according to Dr. K. He told me … Read more
We met with Dr. Kewalrumani, today (after a two hour wait!) and things are now finalized, with my entering Sloan Kettering on Monday, January ninth. Six days of high dose chemotherapy, the return of my previously harvested stem cells on day eight, and then we wait for my white blood cells to build back up … Read more
I’d picked up on this book because the author reviewed another book on economics in the Wall Street Journal – and slyly slipped in a little promotion for his own book. So I looked his book up on amazon, read a few of the posted reviews, and bought it (second hand, of course). The book … Read more
Shortly after the Brusstar’s left in the early evening yesterday (see post below) we called a family meeting. We had refrained from telling the boys that the end of chemotherapy for me would be a fairly long hospital stay. We didn’t see the point of burdening them, or giving them too much to think about … Read more