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Archive for October, 2008

This whole time I’ve been beating myself up about the cancerous fluids returning to my heart area. It never once occurred to me that I could just be the victim of malpractice. I’m not going to sue or anything but the word “malpractice” is just very fitting here. Let me give you some background information:

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As if we’re not already über aware, October is breast cancer awareness month. By the ubiquitous pink ribbons plastered onto products from toasters to mascara and donned by many Hollywood types you might think every month is breast cancer awareness month. One might also think there are no other cancers that afflict Americans. You may [...]

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mixed news…

The first thing the doc told me did not make me smile. My tumor marker is up to 101.7. That’s almost double what it was last time. No good. But keep in mind some docs don’t even use tumor markers as they do wacky things sometimes for no good reason. Only I knew already what [...]

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Tuesday I had my PET scan. For this particular scan, they inject you with radioactive sugar and leave you on a chair in a dark, cramped room for an hour to allow it to fully circulate throughout your body. Then they send you through the mechanical doughnut from hell. In the closet-sized room there [...]

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