So the most important news is that Carrie is here. I wake up several times a night to cough up phlegm in a fairly horrific sounding fashion. It was nice to feel a warm hand on my back as I was trying to hork (<–technical term) something up. And of course the apartment is lit …
Category Archives: Cancer
Update and a Brief Detour into Existentialism
You know how people sometimes post really personal stuff on social media and then say “I might delete this later?” Yeah, this is one of those posts. The update: I am surviving ok at home. I’m in some kind of steady state where I am not in immediate danger, but I also hate this. My …
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Maybe cancer crawl: 28 Sep 2024
Big news. I’m writing this from my dining room table at home. It’s nice. The only beeping I’ll hear today is from appliances if I use them, or perhaps a synthesizer if I get frisky (maybe in a few days). I am definitely exhausted from 5 days in hospital but I can just chill here …
Probably Not Cancer Crawl: 26 Sep 2024
There are so many things I want to tell you about! This is not that post. On August 26th I moved into my Cambridge apartment. Carrie and I drove down a U-haul, and up and down the stairs we went carrying boxes. Sure I got winded but it was normal. I walked around and did …
Cancer Crawl, 1 June 2024
(Good news post coming Monday, music post on Wednesday.) Just to keep this story going: I finished my 5 doses of external beam radiation on Monday the 27th. Apart from wondering whether the itching I felt was normal itching vs radiation itching (hard to tell) there was no pain or discomfort. They say it takes …
Cancer and Concussion Crawl, 24 April 2024
If you’re just joining the show in progress, I’ve been on a tyrosine kinase inhibitor since 2019. It’s kept the spots in my lungs from growing, with side effects that the medical documents call “tolerable.” The good news it mostly works. The bad news is that it mostly works: one of the spots has decided …
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4 June 2023: Cancer Crawl
I’ve just completed a period of intense conferencing. Three in-person conferences in five weeks. Plus a number of Zoom talks on top of it. For me, it was wonderfully social and intellectual. In addition to getting to meet and see work by a new generation of grad students and assistant profs, whom I’d not “discovered” …