Can’t Keep a Good Man Down!
I am happy to say Tom is doing wonderfully, dear friends. They were able to extubate (take him off the ventilator) a few days ago, and he’s been doing just fine with a little oxygen from a nasal...
View ArticleShut the Door and Have a Seat
The news, friends, is not good. The biopsy from back on my birthday shows significant infiltration of the bone marrow by the more aggressive of the two lymphomas that I had before. This pretty solidly...
View ArticleGetting Back on the Medical Horse
I’ve had a variety of physical complaints for a long time, most of which I’d mentally marked as long-term side effects of the chemo and radiation and transplant and so on. But recently I’ve started to...
View ArticleIgnite Talk Video Now Online
It’s not a proper health update, but I wanted to share the video of my speech from Ignite Seattle 11 back in September. It was filmed, edited, and produced by professional-type people. And boy does it...
View ArticleThings Got Worse and Then Got Better
In my previous post I described two episodes where getting up too quickly caused me to get light-headed and eventually pass out. Recognizing that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, I decided to...
View ArticleHow’s It Going
I’ve been home for about half a week; in the beginning it was at once exciting, relieving, and frightening. Exciting and relieving for obvious reasons. Frightening because I was leaving the close...
View ArticleBoredom
My counts are high enough now for them to let me go. White blood cells? Check! Platelets? Out the roof! Neutrophils: appropriate amount! What’s left is getting me eating again. During the worst of it...
View ArticleWell, I’m Still Here
Day +13th, now, and things are similar to the way they were before. I’ve sunk into the depths of the embrace offered by TPN and a PCA. Its a bit liberating, if you don’t mind being shackled to an IV...
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Catching Up
Hey there, long time no see! The last month has been a roller-coaster, full of ups and downs. In that order. This is going to be really long. Check with your stomach first: is it growling? Grab a snack...
View ArticleLymphoma… Is What I Got
In writing about my specific lymphoma situation, I think it’s important to know how exactly lymphoma works. So let’s talk briefly about some mechanics. A few major components of our immune system are...
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