by rickg | Aug 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking a lot about Mary these last few weeks. Most of you know who Mary was but for the record she was my best friend for more than 20 years and she died of breast cancer in 2010. There is a lot more to her and us than just that but for the purposes of...
by rickg | Jul 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
I was originally going to call today’s post “Cut it Out!,” a title with dual meanings. The first meaning refers to my patience level with this whole cancer bullshit (which has mostly involved talking about it endlessly) and my desire to just get on with the part where...
by rickg | Jul 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
The above was the description of dance by either Robert Frost or George Bernard Shaw, depending on which attribution you choose to believe. It was also how Shirley MacLaine described dance at last night’s Dizzy Feet Foundation benefit at the Dorothy Chandler...
by rickg | Jul 25, 2012 | News
The short version: it’s most likely stage 1B but there is some activity in the lymph nodes near the tumor that while not specifically cancerous are enough to put an asterisk on the 1B. If you haven’t read the post about the different stages of esophageal cancer, you...
by rickg | Jul 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
A donut is what I was craving after my PET scan. You see, apparently this cutting-edge test that costs thousands of dollars, involves multi-million dollar machinery, radioactive isotopes, and advanced training to administer can be thrown off by a chocolate chip...
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