Choosing a doctor
My oncologist has retired so I’m choosing a new doctor. I only started with him last year. He had replaced my first doctor who, much to my pleasure, stopped doing work for my insurance (Read More)
Tagged: medical
Where is cancer coming from?
My wife’s cousin passed away last year. She had lung & throat cancer that apparently spread to her bones and elsewhere. She’d never smoked. She was only 62 and should have had many years (Read More)
The Virus
I went grocery shopping recently. It’s not like the old days, you know, four weeks ago. No, now things are different; the coronavirus has hit our state. My local grocer opens an hour early (Read More)
Weird head thing
So. I’ve got that strange slightly dizzy feeling in my head again. Not really dizzy, just strange. I think the medical term in Latin is Weirdus Maximus. (That’s not me in the photo BTW.) (Read More)
Arthritis? Really?
Remember those posts I did about my “Occult fracture” and the “MRI”? Well, I haven’t yet mentioned the results. It was nothing as heal-able as a fracture. It wasn’t a fracture at all. I (Read More)
Duh!
So. As some of you know, until Leuk causes symptoms, leukemia is an invisible disease. It’s easy to forget you have it. But, of course, it doesn’t take too long until a reminder shows (Read More)
Never again
Wow. Have you ever “OD’d” on drugs? I have a medication I take for a condition unrelated to my leukemia. I normally take one pill in the morning and one in the evening. I’m (Read More)
Occult fracture
Here’s an update on a previous post: The docs say my sore leg is not due to lymph nodes pinching off a nerve. Instead they think it may just be a small fracture from (Read More)
Oh joy
Today I get to go see my cancer doc for my bi-annual check up. Oh joy. You know, just a few years back I would have never imagined myself going to a building called (Read More)
Of mice and T-cells
Some potentially good news is coming through the media (in this case CBS news) about a new cancer treatment using genetically modified T-cells. According to the report researchers are already testing it on terminally (Read More)
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