No, seriously! It seems that there’s an new, experimental, gene therapy that may cure cancer. At least, for two of three test subjects, it cured advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia. That’s a type of cancer, incidentally, very similar to the diffuse large B-cell lymphoma that I was diagnosed as having back in 2007. You can read [...]
And, while that IS true, it’s not what this post is about, exactly. When you have cancer, or have survived cancer, you feel alone. You feel like there isn’t anyone in the world who understands you or your life or what you went through or are going through now. But, at the same time, you [...]
I may, or may not, have cancer. Now, before all my regular readers and, due to my automated update configurations, my Twitter and Facebook friends who might read this, get too excited, nothing has changed in my recent medical status. However, Wednesday, I go in for a scan. A regular scan, nothing special, nothing new. [...]
Timing, I have been told, is everything. I believe that’s mostly true, but, not, perhaps, in the way, I think, most people mean. I spent most of my Tuesday this week with a dear friend who waited with me while I tried very hard not to think about a CT scan I was getting. I’m [...]
I’m tired of my life. I’d like to stop it now, and get off, please. Maybe I could ride another ride instead? I’ve spent the weekend doing laundry and keeping all my long-term commitments. I have bills to pay and tomorrow I have to go into work to keep making the money to make them. [...]
