CEO stock options, chemotherapy & your 5 minute doctor appointment
Fact: Yesterday my friend, the surgical oncologist I write about from time to time called me. He was almost speechless. He had a desperately ill patient with breast cancer. She required a particular...
View ArticleA new question of choice
There's currently a case in Accomac county Virginia, which I find a little troubling. Abraham Cherrix, a sixteen year old with Hodgkin's disease, is fighting a court battle to make his own choices...
View ArticleTeenager chooses herbs over chemo
I have shared on here that my mother, who was diagnosed in September with Mantle Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, is now in remission, thanks to her fighting spirit and the work of her miraculous...
View ArticleHero MD: "How do I tell my patient . . .?
Indeed. What you're about to read happens all across the United States. Every day, American citizens and their doctors deal with crap like this and worse in the richest country on the planet. My phone...
View ArticleMurder by Spreadsheet: Kossacks, what is your life worth?
This morning in a harrowing article entitled, Setting a price for putting off death: A few more months of life may not be worth the costs of new cancer therapies, some argue, The Los Angeles Times...
View ArticlePrice of admission: $105,000
You know, I really should be reading a grant right now, but after seeing this article from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, I am just too angry – and scared – to focus on anything else. It begins thus:...
View ArticleAP article says Contraception is Abortion: even Condoms UPDATED 10/23
The Associated Press has published an article about a new pharmacy that refuses to sell any contraceptive of any kind. Writer Matthew Barakat describes this policy as "pro-life," clearly insinuating...
View ArticleThis Mortal Coil
"Hard cases," observed Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "make bad law." And Holmes should know, having held that Eugene Debs should rot ten years in prison for opposing World War I, and having...
View ArticleYes, Actually, I CAN Judge The Chemo Kid
In a bizarre post at Salon, Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. says we shouldn't judge a family that is on the lam, so that their 13 year old son won't have to experience the hell of chemotherapy treatments for...
View ArticleChemo-fleeing kid returns
I just saw two news items on it, one is here: http://news.yahoo.com/... and confirmed here: Cancer-stricken boy, mother returned to Minnesota Sorry, there's no fresh open thread or I would have posted...
View ArticleAlternative treatments: Setting the record straight
It seems my last post on the anecdotal evidence of the efficacy of green tea, experienced by myself, has left some mistaken impressions in the minds of a few [at least one] of the commenters.
View ArticleDementia
I'm no fan of Arlen Specter, but accusing the man of dementia is both wrong and counterproductive. Posting a video that shows him losing his train of thought, and then asking people to accept it as...
View ArticleChemo & Radiation--What you always wanted to know, or maybe not.
Some of you may be familiar with the diary I wrote in February after my cancer came back. I've been thinking about and planning to write another one, but first I was too sick to write as the result of...
View ArticleKosAbility: So That's What Chemo Is Like
On Monday September 20th, 2010 I started on my 4th round of chemotherapy, this time for CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia)http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/...This diary chronicles the first day of that...
View ArticleTop Comments - Terror, then a shining hope!
Several weeks ago my brother was having digestive problems. He was jaundiced, and was having problems with a perpetually upset stomach. An ultrasound was ordered, and problems were found with his gall...
View ArticleTop Comments - Ringing the Bell
Those of you who follow Top Comments will know it has been some time since my last diary. My family has been involved in a difficult fight - my brother’s battle with cancer, which I diaried on April...
View ArticleKosAbility: My wife has breast cancer and I feel helpless
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with...
View ArticleMonday Night Cancer Club: "If it doesn't kill cancer, it may make it stronger"
Monday Night Cancer Club is a Daily Kos group focused on dealing with cancer, primarily for cancer survivors and caregivers, though clinicians, researchers, and others with a special interest are also...
View ArticleCancer Diary #4, Chemo and the Grumpy Old Man
Hi, welcome to the 4th part of my cancer diary series. Today we'll look at how chemo changes things for awhile, toss in some quips and annotations, and in general try to convey how grumpy you can...
View ArticleEnd of Chemo "Happy Dance"
Since I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic cancer and entered an aggressive chemo treatment in early June, there have been clues given to me about how this initial part of our journey through...
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