Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Cancer Crawl 16 Nov 2024: A Union, Going Out, Staying In, Etc.
We’ll start with the big news: McGill’s Arts Professors Union (AMPFA) are now officially certified as a bargaining unit. A little over a year after our first signed card, we have a union! I’m not naive about what will be involved in the bargaining process, but given admin’s systematic turn to “consultation” and the dysfunction …
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Cancer Crawl: 14 November: The Gear Post
I hate Martin Heidegger but the one quote of his that I allow myself is as follows: “there is no such thing as an equipment”. (from Being and Time). It’s 21st century America. Cancer = consumerism. Time for some product reviews. Soundcore Sleep A20 Earbuds Beyond Carrie, actual treatment, and friends, I think these earbuds …
Cancer Crawl: 12 Nov 2024: Independence Goals, The Patient Vortex, Christmas in Cambridge
First, the bad news. On Friday I spoke with my Montreal oncologist who told me in no uncertain terms that I am not spending Christmas in California. His exact words were “you are still in a precarious state.” This bites for several reasons. California is warmer than Cambridge. Our cats are there, whom I miss …
7 Nov 2024: Cancer Crawl and U.S. Election
I’m pleased to have no doctors’ appointments and no new side effects to report since my last post. It turns out I do not have an infection, and I am back on dabrafenib and trametinib as of yesterday. Tuesday night we went to an election watching party. You all know how that turned out, but …
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5 Nov 2024: A Visit to the Mothership
Yesterday was our first trip back to Mass General since my hospitalization. The place is truly massive. My oncologist here calls it The Mothership and that truly makes sense. I had to be wheeled around in a wheelchair because it would have been impossible for me to walk in my current condition. The first stop …
Cancer Crawl–3 Nov 2024
Since my last post, I’d say I’m living in a split reality. Every day there’s a little progress or something fun, but also every day some new fucking thing as the new chemo works its way through my body. When starting on lenvima I had a rule that a side effect wasn’t real if it …