Cancer Crawl 5 Feb 2024 Erratum: there was a 4th option I failed to mention on Thursday which is a sort of radiotherapy whack-a-mole where they radiate lesions as they start to cause symptoms. We’re not considering this one (for one thing, that’s a potentially infinite number of radiation treatments) so I’m not saying much …
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Bad news / good news
Cancer Crawl, 31 Jan 2025 The tests have all come back, so I have news. Strap in because it’s a bumpy ride. Bad news: the mets in my brain have grown, and there is one spot where there is some bleeding. I am probably not symptomatic apart from twice getting a numb tongue for 10 …
24 Jan 2025 Cancer Crawl: Pause or Shift?
This will be another symptoms and side effects post. I really want to write about shrinkage and some other more philosophical topics but that has to wait. The good news is that there is good news to share. Let’s go! Good news: sleep. I put the 15 degree foam wedge on top of the 25 …
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20 Jan 2025 Cancer Crawl: Works in Progress
It’s been a week so here is a check-in. Things have been pretty rough on the symptom/side-effect front. I did have friends in town this weekend and got to see them a couple times, which was very nice. I’ve been coughing up lots of blood and/or bloody phlegm (a known side effect of several of …
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14 Jan 25 Cancer Crawl: Trifecta
One of my favourite Loony Tunes scenes is a rare speaking part for Wile E. Coyote. He is in some kind of hut that reads “Explosives: Keep Out”, filling up carrots with explosive liquid in a plan to finally “get” Bugs Bunny, who is meanwhile using a tractor to pull said hut (which is inexplicably …
12 Jan 2024 Cancer Crawl: radical monopolies and end of life; semi-independent
This week was supposed to be my “back to work” week and while I did a little email and sent out a couple letters, I did not get very far into my own work. I did successfully go into Radcliffe two days, but Friday was the coughing fit I describe below–which started in the Uber …
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9 Jan Cancer Crawl: old cancer books ][, or Cancer Blog meets Cancer Journals
Although I regularly assign Audre Lorde’s “Breast Cancer: Power vs Prosthesis” in my disability course, I don’t know that I’d ever sat down and read her Cancer Journals straight through. Having now done so I’m not sure that’s how it was intended. The book consists of three essays, and some of the examples that stuck …
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