My Book is Finally Available
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Book is finally available, Started Hospice. Going on a cruise. Busy, Busy, Busy
Source: stage4's Weblog - July 6, 2008
Up north
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We're in Minnesota. I'm sitting here in the cabin looking out at the lake and listening to loons. (The loons in this case would be the actual birds, not my husband and child). Peaceful.WCK is a pretty good traveler. Because of her infamous motion-sickness problem, she can't do much in the car. She can't watch movies or look at books or color or anything like that. Fortunately, she's pretty content to sit in her car seat and listen to Mr. Stinky Feet and chat about what she sees out the window. We're pretty fortunate, except we've listened to the four Stinky Feet CDs that we own about 20 times each. If I hear ...There's sev...
Source: The Adventures of Cancer Girl - July 5, 2008
18
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Of all the numbers in the world, 18 is Joey’s favorite. About a Lego boat he built today, my 7-year-old told me: “I needed one of these white pieces and when I looked for one, I found 18.” The other day when we disappointed him with the news that we could not go out to [...]
Source: my Breast Cancer blog - July 5, 2008 Authors: site admin Tags: Kids My story Survivors
10th Annual 4th of July Party
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We had the ideal day for our party at Sylvia's house. Everything was perfect except for a quick visit to Urgent Care when Aly accidently poked her eye with her fingernail. We missed Jennifer who stayed home with her foot in a cast, Andy who was helping set off a fireworks display in Lake Orion and Grandma Brahm who is in Rehab with a healing broken hip.
Source: Let the healing begin... - July 5, 2008
Sun at last. Sunny days as a habit.
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Copyright © 2008 Patti. Visit the original article at http://www.white-pebble.net/?p=4146.I could get used to these sunny days here at the lake. But we are at the highlight of summer here. It will not get better, and that implies that the weather will slowly get worse, and the sunlight less, here on in.
To the end of storing up memories for later, I have been listening a lot to the local birds. One wren and one cardinal in the neighborhood regularly duke it out over territory around dinnertime. They haven’t started it up for today, as of this writing.
There used to be several (at least 3) crows around the house, too...
Source: white pebble - July 5, 2008 Authors: Patti Tags: travel chautauqua weather
Support This Blog, Please
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You may have noticed a "donate" button at the bottom of some posts on my blog.
A button that looks like this:
The button is there because, with two small exceptions, I have decided to keep The Assertive Cancer Patient ad-free. The exceptions are a link to Amazon whenever I mention a book, and a Netflix ad on my Cancer Movies pages.
There are any number of ways to put ads on a blog. It's simple and easy. I tried this for a week or two when I first put my blog up. I used the ad service provided by Typepad, which hosts my blog.
But--and this is a huge BUT--most of the ads that popped up on my blog were f...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 5, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Blogs
IRF4 addiction in multiple myeloma
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For an introduction to IRF4 please see my June 27th post. Now, let’s see, the full “Nature” study starts with a discussion of a genetic method to identify therapeutic targets in cancer in which small hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) that mediate RNA interference are screened for their ability to block cancer cell proliferation and/or survival. The [...]
Source: Margaret's Corner - July 5, 2008 Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll
discharged from hospice
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Are they any members with cancer who used to be on hospice and decided to stop hospice?
Source: Community Blog - July 5, 2008
Anderson Network’s 20th Anniversary Patient and Caregiver Conference
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What: Anderson Network’s 20th Anniversary Patient and Caregiver Conference: Living Fully With and Beyond Cancer Conference
When: September 4 - 6, 2008
Where: Houston Marriott Westchase
This year’s theme is “Live, Reach, Celebrate” where Gerald McRaney will be the keynote speaker.
Gerald McRaney has played a farmer and a hit man, an old West gunfighter and a corrupt Southern sheriff, as well as his popular TV roles as a private investigator in “Simon and Simon” and a no-nonsense military man with children in “Major Dad.”
But the role he recently faced at The University o...
Source: Cancer Commentary - July 5, 2008 Authors: Gloria Gamat Tags: cancer story general commentary Anderson Network's 20th Anniversary Patient and Caregiv Gerald McRaney Living Fully With and Beyond Cancer Conference The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
A Doctor Who Wouldn't Listen: A Personal Footnote
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I don't use the word "malpractice" lightly.
I've been in cancer treatment for most of the past 10 years, both at SCCA and at other cancer centers in Seattle. And during that time, my doctors have made mistakes in my care.
See: Medical Mistakes—They Will Happen
I do not consider those mistakes to be malpractice, and I have never considered suing them.
But Sandy's story about a doctor who repeatedly ignored her reports of severe pain and her requests for further scans is beyond incredible. A court will decide if Dr. Park's actions did indeed constitute malpractice, which is why I've used the word with a question mar...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 4, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Doctors Medical Mistakes Metastatic Cancer
A Doctor Who Wouldn't Listen: Finding Dr. Park
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I wanted to know what the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (an institution partly owned by the University of Washington Medical Center, and where cancer patients are seen on an out-patient basis) would tell me about Dr. Sangtae Park's career at the UW and SCCA, so I e-mailed Dean Forbes, the media relations person, last Monday, June 30.
I e-mailed Dean at both his work and personal e-mail addresses, but received no reply. I e-mailed him again a couple of days later, and also called him on his work number. I asked whether Dr. Park had resigned or was fired from his appointments in Seattle.
No reply.
See: One Way to Keep a ...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 4, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Doctors Medical Mistakes Metastatic Cancer
A Doctor Who Wouldn't Listen: The Other Fork
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The other fork in Sandy Garvin's road is her treatment since she found out that her cancer had indeed metastasized. She says she decided she no longer trusted doctors at the UW, and she switched to the Swedish cancer center.
Her surgeon at Swedish did the hip replacement she needed by that time, because the tumor had grown to more than 4 centimeters in size. She also has been treated with radiation and chemotherapy at Swedish, including the drugs zometa and Avastin.
She has had to take breaks from treatment and take a lower-than-usual dose of Avastin in order to keep her one remaining kidney from failing. Sandy also doe...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 4, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Doctors Medical Mistakes Metastatic Cancer
A Doctor Who Wouldn't Listen: A 'Y' in the Road
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At this point, Sandy's story splits and goes in two directions, like a Y in the road.
One branch is her attempts to reach Dr. Park and find out why he didn't listen to her. A friend who is also a doctor called the UWMC on Sandy's behalf to make an appointment and was told Dr. Park was no longer there.
The person she spoke to refused to tell her where Dr. Park is now or to give her his phone number.
"He ran," Sandy says.
A Web search found Dr. Park in Chicago, where he is an assistant professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Chicago.
See: Dr. Sangtae Park
Sandy believes that Dr. Park's failure t...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 4, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Doctors Medical Mistakes Metastatic Cancer
A Doctor Who Wouldn't Listen: What Happened?
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Sandy Garvin is in constant pain and wears a pain patch on her chest.
She hobbles slowly with a cane after a hip replacement that also removed much of the muscle in her upper left leg. Her balance is too poor to sail, a hobby she misses bitterly.
Sandy was diagnosed with kidney cancer in the fall of 2006. Her surgeon, Dr. Sangtae Park, then on staff at the University of Washington Medical Center and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, told her that he had removed all the cancer when he removed her right kidney.
The short version of her story is that Sandy complained to Dr. Park about severe pain in her left hip shortly ...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 4, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Doctors Medical Mistakes Metastatic Cancer
A Doctor Who Wouldn't Listen: Malpractice at the UW/SCCA?
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Last week I met with a Seattle woman named Sandy Garvin. This is her story.
BEFORE
In October of 2006, Sandy was 57 and had just retired after 28 years as a flight attendant for American Airlines. She was traveling, sailing five days a week, and enjoying the three-story house in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood that she had bought in 2004.
"I was having a blast," Sandy says.
AFTER
Not quite two years later, Sandy's life has changed dramatically.
Sandy can no longer sail:
"I'm afraid to get on a boat," she says.
She can't travel by herself:
"I [have to] bother people now."
She can't even take care of hersel...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 4, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Doctors Medical Mistakes Metastatic Cancer
Changes at 'Cure'
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I received a press release from "Cure" magazine the other day--you know the one: it's found in most oncologists' waiting rooms.
I don't read it, and I don't like it, mainly because of the name.
I have metastatic breast cancer, which cannot be cured, and I've had it for more than six years now, so why would I want to read a mag called "Cure"? So NOT my publication.
Anyway, according to the press release, "Cure" is expanding its coverage, to include those of us who are long-time cancer survivors. Now, maybe it's just me, but I find this exquisitely funny--how long did it take this magazine, supposedly written for cancer...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 4, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Cancer News Language of Cancer Media Writing
One Way to Keep a Story Out of Print (Or Try To)
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One tried-and-true method that PR people use to keep a story from seeing the light of day is to ignore the reporter's requests for a comment or response.
Because then, if you run the story without their input, they can claim that it's biased--even though they refused to reply to questions or a request for an interview in a timely fashion.
I believe this was the ASCO PR folks' strategy when I wanted a reponse from them to my posts about the Abigail Alliance being kept off a panel about off-protocol use of new cancer treatments. It took the PR people more than two weeks to reply to my repeated requests for comment, and t...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 4, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: ASCO Blogs Media Writing
More About Wellsphere
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After I put up my post about Dr. Geoff of Wellsphere e-mailing to ask if the site could use the entire contents of my blog, FOR FREE, comments and e-mails flowed in from other bloggers who had been approached by the good doctor with the same request.
Here's yet another:
Dear Jeanne: ... I found you after I too got the letter from Wellsphere wanting access to my Web site. I was almost tempted till I read your story.
Thanks so much and by the way your site is absolutely wonderful.I will certainly pass it along. Best wishes, Barbara
Other comments posted to my blog include a warning from a former employee that Wellsphe...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 4, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Blogs Cancer and Work The Web
rising above it
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A few years ago, back in what seems another lifetime, I had a co-worker who was driving me crazy. He was incredibly insecure and often sought to make himself look good at others' expense. He was also lazy and very willing to let others slog away at the grunt work, grabbing the tasks for himself that would gain recognition from the leadership of our organization.I started to obsess about the unfairness of this. I wanted something to be done. And I began to vent my spleen to anyone who would listen. Even when relaxing after an intense project, I found myself returning to this subject like a dog worrying a bone. One friend in...
Source: Not just about cancer - July 4, 2008 Tags: thinking activism cancer blog rants
Independence Day
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Source: Let the healing begin... - July 4, 2008
Happy 4th of July!
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Anyone got great plans? This afternoon we're off to a family BBQ/pool party. Tomorrow we've got Alex's buddy's 1st birthday party. Alex is pumped. A lot has changed since last year when we spent the 4th in our apartment in...
Source: Life with Cancer - July 4, 2008 Authors: Erin Ruddy
Holiday.
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Happy Fourth of July. I'll be back Monday. -- Leroy Sievers
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Source: NPR Blogs: My Cancer - July 4, 2008
MRI
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I am going through the full IRF4 myeloma study for the umptieth time, but it has been sizzling hot in Florence today, and I confess that I have not felt inspired (to revise my IRF4 draft etc.). Today the heat wave that has been plaguing Florence for way too long reached the level of Red Alert or Stage 3 [...]
Source: Margaret's Corner - July 4, 2008 Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll
Kidney Cancer Vaccine: Much Hype, Little Hope
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Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - July 4, 2008
Happy 4th of July
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Source: Let the healing begin... - July 3, 2008
A new quiz
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Copyright © 2008 Patti. Visit the original article at http://www.white-pebble.net/?p=4145.It’s all Shirl’s fault!
OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets
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Source: white pebble - July 3, 2008 Authors: Patti Tags: Ephemera
The birthday of today is…
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Copyright © 2008 Patti. Visit the original article at http://www.white-pebble.net/?p=4144.Happy birthday to one of the only food writers that I’ve truly admired. (The other one is Julia Child, whose birthday it is not.)
NEWSgrist - where spin is art: M.F.K. Fisher: Witches Of Yesteryear
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher was born a hundred years ago today.
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Source: white pebble - July 3, 2008 Authors: Patti Tags: Ephemera birthday food
"Regarding ARM refinance"
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--that was the subject of an e-mail that landed in my g-mail account recently.
The e-mail was so weird, that it inspired me to create a whole new blog category, (Just Plain Weird ...) just for this e-mail, and the guy who sent it to me, whose name, he says, is James Palmer.
James writes that he works for a company called Survey Resource Center, which he claims is a "National Lead Company" [caps his, and whatever that means] that has been in business since 1998.
Then he tells me that there are some criteria I "have to" meet (or wait, does he mean my friends have to meet?):
We Just Completed the last survey of the s...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 3, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Just Plain Weird ...
Done
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The stem cell transplant is complete. Everything is good.
Keith is being called a superhuman stem cell harvester by the doctors and nurses, measuring 10,100,000 stem cells in one harvest! The average harvest is 5,000,000 for a healthy donor, but of course being the competitor he is, that wasn’t good enough. We have enough cells to freeze half, just in case…
Kent and Keith had the same blood type prior to the transplant, so that hasn’t changed, but Kent now has Keith’s DNA. Hmmm…that is pretty strange.
Keith said when he came to the hospital Tuesday night he was burning up from the ne...
Source: Tracking Kent's Progress - July 3, 2008 Authors: kbriggs Tags: Uncategorized
Stay Off My Blog!
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This post should really be titled How many times do I have to tell you? because as I search back through my e-mail, I find that I have asked this person several times in the past to stop posting self-promotions to my blog.
Here's the e-mail I sent today, to "Angel" at ajangelinajohn@gmail.com:
Subject: please stay off my blog
Angel--your comments on my blog--promoting your own Web site and saying thinks like "holistic treatment is the only useful treatment to cure cancer completely"--are NOT WELCOME.
Please do not post on my blog again.
Jeanne
Jeanne Sather
The Assertive Cancer Patient
www.assertivepatient.com
Ang...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 3, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Blogs Cancer News Quacks The Web
How Many U.S. Women Have Metastatic Breast Cancer?
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I've been trying to get answers to several important questions:
1. How many women (well, and the tiny number of men) are living with metastatic breast cancer in the United States?
2. What is the life expectancy for women with metastatic breast cancer? (I have an answer to this one, but I'm hoping there might be newer or more exact figures available.)
3. How many people in the United States are living with metastatic cancer of all types?
This information is important to me for obvious reasons: I'm one of these people, and many of the readers of my blog are also living with metastatic disease or are dealing with the long...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 3, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Cancer News Metastatic Cancer
Tykerb Woes
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When I was in getting IV fluids yesterday, I asked my nurse to check with Dr. Lee about my Tykerb--should I cut the dose?
Actually, I had already cut the dose from five pills a day to three on Monday and Tuesday, the two days that my stomach was so upset.
Dr. Lee said that I should skip taking Tykerb for a day, which was yesterday, and then start again with only two pills a day and gradually work back up to five as long as my tummy stayed calm.
I'm still having problems today, so I think I'm going to call and see if he wants me to skip another day, or to go ahead with the two pills. I really hate to not take it, becau...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 3, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Medical Billing/Insurance Woes Medicare Metastatic Cancer Tykerb
Photostream blog ~ shooting
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Digital = free?
Source: auspiciousdragon.net - July 3, 2008
Thunder and Rain, Oh My: Seattle's Cool Returns
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Well, I learned a lesson during the past week of so of hot weather in Seattle ...
The lesson, sadly, is one that I've been having trouble with since the beginning of my life with cancer: I am a lot more fragile than I would like to admit.
This time it was the heat that brought me low (literally, I was light-headed and dizzy and THAT CLOSE to passing out on the floor a couple of times). The heat in combination with Tykerb, my new wonder drug, which causes, ah hem, GI tract problems--that's diarrhea to those of you who don't like euphenisms.
I don't like euphenisms, either, but I also don't really like writing about ...
Source: The Assertive Cancer Patient - July 3, 2008 Authors: Jeanne Sather Tags: Cancer Treatment Life With Cancer Tykerb
Talk in Edinburgh on TGFß
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I am at the European Conference of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology that Dundee’s group of biomathematics is organising. It’s a big conference with hundreds of participants and takes place only once every three years.
I had the privilege to give a small contributed talk on my research with Sandy Anderson and the guys at Hayward’s lab in Vanderbilt. Briefly our model tries to explain the role of stromal-epithelial interactions (mediated via TGFß) in prostate cancer. we found out that while TGFß plays an important role in maintaining homeostasis in a healthy tissue and after a tumour has broken...
Source: Cancerevo: Evolution and cancer - July 3, 2008 Authors: David Basanta
Introducing Benson…
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Benson, My “End of Chemo” present
Source: Especially Heather - July 3, 2008 Authors: Especially Heather Tags: Everday Musings
July 3, 2008 - Transplant Day
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I arrived last night after driving through quite a rain storm. My parents told me to hold off driving to Ann Arbor until the storm passed but I didn’t want to take any chances on not getting here last night. They don’t need to know that they were right and the rain was hitting my windshield like a bullet.
Two Briggs’ brothers came to Ann Arbor yesterday like two stealth bombers, and without a trace, one of them harvested enough stem cells for a transplant, stopped by for a visit with the patient, and were gone before my arrival last night. You would have thought it was a top secret mission, but ...
Source: Tracking Kent's Progress - July 3, 2008 Authors: kbriggs Tags: Uncategorized
Rain again, again.
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Copyright © 2008 Patti. Visit the original article at http://www.white-pebble.net/?p=4143.One notable thing about this particular vacation of ours here in Chautauqua is the rain and cold. I’ve never known Chautauqua to be an oven in the summer, but warm, definitely. And never quite so much rain. If I were paranoid, and a follower of a failed Democratic candidate for president, I’d think it was all my fault, somehow.
I mean, I still drive a Volvo with a regular gas-eating, internal combustion engine. And what a lovely engine it is! Never gives me a lick of trouble, and looks good while not giving me any trouble...
Source: white pebble - July 3, 2008 Authors: Patti Tags: Ephemera chautauqua weather
Insurance Snafu
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Now that both Nick and I are self employed we have to pay for our own insurance (we were on my conde nast benefits up until now). Fortunately, we can do Cobra and it's really not that bad. Unfortunately, there...
Source: Life with Cancer - July 3, 2008 Authors: Erin Ruddy
Normal Days
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Another day in Cancer World. Actually, a pretty normal day.
A friend came over to visit. She brought cookies.
Another friend came over the day before. She brought cupcakes.
Clearly, my policy of "bring nothing" has failed miserably. I haven't
weighed myself recently, but I have to believe I have gained back some of the weight I lost. My doctors should be happy.
It's easy to think that there should be some kind of crisis every day in Cancer World. But that's not the case. Many days nothing much happens, at least nothing much related to the disease.
Today's been one of those days.
So I'm just going to end here, and en...
Source: NPR Blogs: My Cancer - July 3, 2008
Today's photo
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Walking the Glen. June 2008
Source: auspiciousdragon.net - July 3, 2008
We the people demand healthcare reform
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Last week, CNN reported that lobbyists spend 2.5 billion dollars to influence the American government. As startling as that figure is, a full 20 percent of that (about 500 million dollars), is spent by the healthcare industry. Imagine, that is approximately 1.2 million dollars on healthcare for each man woman and child in the United States. I don’t know about you, but by my calculations that is enough money to ensure coverage for everybody. Even more provoking is the question of how much profit is made by the health insurance industry if they can afford to throw away this kind of money to influence policy? Further, how i...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - July 2, 2008 Authors: natalieb Tags: Health insurance concerns Healthcare Uncategorized Universal healthcare cancer in politics America Americans blog breast cancer breast cancer blog CNN congress health insurance companies health insurance industry HealthTalk K
The Silence of the Hamstrings
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I’ve never been one for video games nor do I salivate over the latest technology. I can’t say I’m afraid of it but have more of a certain distrust of The Hype and a desire to keep life pretty simple. I also don’t have a lot of disposable income. So the other day I noticed Dooce was giving away some Wii Fit sets and I immediately started to covet. Sadly being a Canadian resident I am not eligible for the contest. However, I suddenly decided that I desperately neeeeeed one of these things. Admittedly I’ve never tried one. I’ve never actually seen one in the shiny and plastic-y flesh. But for some reason I am abso...
Source: Von Krankipantzen - July 2, 2008 Tags: Gettin' Healthy Wit It getting old Cancer Treatment Life Medical Stuff Lame Karmic Retribution I Have ANGST Breast Cancer
Holiday road
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We are about to load up the Family Truckster ...... and head out on a road trip to northern Minnesota. This will be the first time in years that I've set foot in the state of Minnesota without getting poked with needles by medical professionals. It will be a welcome change. Our cabin is supposed to have high-speed Internet (Jay was in charge of picking the cabin, and he said Internet access was a requirement), so I might be able to post vacation updates on location.In other news, I got my report from Dr. H at the Mayo Clinic. The summary of my last visit starts out like this: "Mrs. (my last name) is doing really quite well...
Source: The Adventures of Cancer Girl - July 2, 2008
Cancer-resistant humans…!
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Off and on during the past few months, there has been a bit of discussion on the MMA listserv about a cancer treatment (considered by some to be controversial) developed by a team led by Zheng Cui, Ph.D., at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. This treatment came up again as a topic in [...]
Source: Margaret's Corner - July 2, 2008 Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll cancer-resistance CKA levels cui
Whooooooooooosh!
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I am so busy riding the deadline rocket sled that I can't even tell you. Can't tell you now, anyway, but in about a month you won't be able to shut me up. .I wasn't planning to attend the San Diego Comic-Con this year, but it looks like I'm going to be in town for a day after all. Saturday, to be specific, so I should be able to take a nice, leisurely stroll through the exhibition hall and not worry about overcrowding at all (that's a joke, son). I mention it now because I know some of my writer and artist buddies read the blog occasionally and Comic-Con is one of the few chances we get to meet. Don't be surprised to see m...
Source: Mom's Cancer Blog - July 2, 2008 Tags: Comic-Con Rocket Sled
Who's your dream guest blogger?
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I have a couple of vacations coming up this summer (northern Michigan and Vienna) and it just occurred to me that I will probably not have reliable Internet access at either. So, I'm thinking I should start compiling the guest...
Source: Life with Cancer - July 2, 2008 Authors: Erin Ruddy
Just Say Anything
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I was on Minnesota Public Radio yesterday, a phone-in show about cancer. The listeners always come up with good questions. Questions that make me think. Yesterday was no exception.
One person asked what more she could say to her friend who has cancer without being insulting. I think she, like so many people, was afraid of saying something that might seem insensitive.
That has come up a lot. But I really think it's the last thing a friend or caregiver needs to worry about.
Cancer patients know how difficult it is to talk about our disease. It's hard for us. I have broken down into tears any number of times recently.
But...
Source: NPR Blogs: My Cancer - July 2, 2008
Allegra kicks Neulasta's butt!
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I haven't posted in a while but I wanted to share this with anyone who might be looking for relief from the pain of the Neulasta injections. My husband had headaches, chest pain and, well, just pain for about ...
Source: Community Blog - July 2, 2008
Good eats
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Much silence from me lately! This reflects both good news (trip to Europe, getting work done, playing lots of volleyball) and not so good news (I'm feeling resentful about my involuntary association with the world of cancer, partly because of its effect on my own life, and partly because someone very close in my social circle--and younger than me--has just been diagnosed and is being dragged into this world herself).I break my silence with little to say about my own life. But the NY Times strikes again with another great piece on nutrition. This is just a general "what you should eat" article, but most of these items are o...
Source: At least it's a "good" cancer - July 2, 2008 Authors: Jenny
