Washington Post on Arlen Specter and his lymphoma
Specter worked while going through chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s disease and is now back to full speed. Sen. Arlen Specter, Back in Top Form
First day at Sloan Kettering for chemotherapy and stem cell transplant
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
Thanks to one and all for the prayers and good wishes!
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
Latest read – “The Power of Intention”
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
Four months of journaling
I started this webjournal exactly four months ago, on September 8th. After about a month I migrated the journal from it’s original home on blogspot over to typepad. Or rather my brother Phil did. I complained to him about something on blogspot, and he just moved everything over to here (and paid the first year … Read more
Ye olde reality check at the gym
Went to the gym in the early afternoon, and when I finished on the bike, I “hit the weights.” However the chest pressing machine I like to use was in use, so I decided to do some bench presses – specifically the sets and reps I used to do as a strength test. I stopped … Read more
The disdvantage of going to the gym in the evening
Is that you then have trouble getting to sleep. I just spent from 9:30 to 10:30 in the gym and it’s great from the point of view of not too many people there. But now I’m not going to be able to get to sleep before 1:30 or 2. Not good. I only go to … Read more
Afternoon with the Gagnon’s
On January 2nd we had a very pleasant afternoon dinner with our friends Damian and Jeanne Marie Gagnon, and three of their four children (Nate, Philip and Kathleen; Monica had gone back to college). Here’s a picture of Joe and Brigid (note social lubricant in front of Brigid.) And Jeanne Marie. Perhaps listening to Brigid?
Major advance in ovarian cancer treatment reported today
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
Here’s a comprehensive negative review of the Canadian Healthcare system
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