Still feeling good. The nurse practitioner Lorraine discussed my stem cell return, scheduled for Monday at 10:30 in the morning. It will take less than 30 minutes. More on that tomorrow. Here are two pictures from yesterday, when I was visited by two Islamic women from Croton. First Brigid, then my friend and assistant Judy. … Read more
11:15PM and I am having my last dose of chemotherapy, which will run until after midnight. This is my eighth cycle of Etoposide, which I’ve received every 12 hours since Tuesday (Monday I had something else – can’t remember the name) at 10am and 10pm. Saturday I will get a dose of Melphalan, in the … Read more
Despite lying around in the hospital with lots of free time, I had no stomach to watch the senate judiciary hearings on Alito. Chemotherapy hasn’t given me nausea, but the senatorial windbags speechifying and playing to the cameras – that brought it on if I watched for more then two minutes at a time. Here … Read more
My good friend John Brown is a teacher and the head of the science department at his school in England. Evidently not that impressed with my reading list. Here’s his email to me: Dear Tom, Just been on your website and great to hear things are going well apart from the insomnia. Mind you having … Read more
It’s 11:30pm of day three, and so far there have been very little in the way of side effects. Only issue is some insomnia – I am given the chemo at 10AM and 10PM, and there are steroids in the mix, which make it difficult to get to sleep. And of course people traipse in … Read more
I basically have four books with me, with two as reserve at home. I am reading three of them simultaneously. Why not? They are all three on varied topics and from different sources. My friend Theresa Bonopartis sent me a book which in most countries is entitled “Praying Self-Abandonment to Divine Love”, but in the … Read more
Specter worked while going through chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s disease and is now back to full speed. Sen. Arlen Specter, Back in Top Form
We arrived at one o’clock, had some admission tests done and got upstairs to the room around three o’clock. The room is very nice with all the amenities they had mentioned – computer, DVD/VCR player, and plasma TV (but not a big one!). I was checked in by a nurse practitioner by the name of … Read more
I have received many lovely notes, emails, and face to face sentiments, which are greatly appreciated by everyone in my family. My good friend all-the-way-back-to-college Dennis Cannon sent me an email in which he said “I’d like to call it an adventure, because I think you kind of see it as a unique challenge. Like … Read more
My friend Ellen Mullin gave me a book by Wayne Dyer entitled The Power of Intention. I had vaguely heard of Dyer – he is a “self-development” or human development guru. He has a psychology doctorate and has written a bundle of books, the best-known early one being Your Erroneous Zones. I like to read … Read more