Topic: cancer

Reading Roger Ebert's post titled "When a movie hurts too much", I'm reminded that, at least since my mother's initial run-in with cancer, through the nerve-wracking days when my niece was born and had to spend extra days in the hospital, to my mother's second and final run-in with cancer, and brought to complete sad fruition when my sister's father-in-law went to a hospital and never left two...

Oh dear reader, I've been reading your blogs through google reader but I just haven't had the time to make my rounds. How do you all keep blogging through the busyness? And some of you have such thought provoking posts going on. I just wish I could sit down with a cuppa and visit with you all. But no, nature calls, and the summer work plods on relentlessly. Ya gotta love summer though. Every...

My sister-in-law has cancer. Last week, a biopsy revealed that Stephanie has a cancerous lump on her thyroid. She'll likely have her thyroid removed, meaning she'll need to take medication for the rest of her life. (She's 37 years old.) She'll also probably need a handful of radioactive iodine chemotherapy treatments. Prognosis positive Jeff and Stephanie have both settled down a bit after the...

Cancer is undesirable. Heart disease is undesirable. So are type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s and a thousand other debilitations that predominantly afflict those over the age of 40. Is it not then bizarre that we should have any hesitation in declaring that aging in general, being the molecular and cellular root cause of all these phenomena, is just as deserving of the attention of our...

Received some sad news today. An excellent photographer friend of mine named Carole Archer lost an ongoing battle with cancer this morning. She will be missed dearly by all of us lucky enough to call her friend. And, here, by the way, is one of my favorite Carole photos: Here, too, are some pics she took of yours truly on the Sandy River this time last year. Thanks for the terrific...

Solstice weekend now and forever will have a more personal meaning. This 2 part post is about my dear friend Katrina, who like the hurricane,was a force of nature. Katrina died of cancer at the age of 51 in 2003 on June 19th at 11:45pm, 15 minutes before...(read more)...