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Olden I | Melancholynoma
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Bittersweet thoughts about cancer. References – old. May 18, 2014. Another birthday has just gone by. The next one will be one of the big 0’s which, a few years back, I really did not expect to see. So, perhaps this is a good time to look back on who I was, and who I am now. Would I spend my life lonely? Were we all going to die in some horrible catastrophe – war, plague, famine, or whatever? What would happen if I had a debilitating accident or contracted some nasty disease? Everything would be OK when ...
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The Man with the Golden Syringe | Melancholynoma
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Bittersweet thoughts about cancer. References – old. July 9, 2012. The Man with the Golden Syringe. The big news since the last update is that I am now 3 weeks into my Interleukin-2 treatments. They take place approximately every 2 weeks during a short clinic visit featuring Dr. G. My oncologist) has now contacted the people in Toronto and I believe there is a mechanism more or less in place to allow me to have them acquire said tumour material. The timing of such a trip is, as yet, completely undete...
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The Living Sunlights | Melancholynoma
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Bittersweet thoughts about cancer. References – old. June 20, 2014. Sun and Skin Survival Special. 8216;Tis the sunshine season, although much of the Northern hemisphere may be in some doubt about this. The summer solstice is upon us. For many this is a time to frolic in the great outdoors in as near an. State as the law permits. For me it is a time to cover up and slap on the sunscreen. For those of you with fair complexions, Nordic skin and especially red hair. Mine might be a good example to follow.
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The Sky Above Me | Melancholynoma
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Bittersweet thoughts about cancer. References – old. December 26, 2014. The Sky Above Me. Able Maritime weather this Christmas! It is 10C with sunshine,blue skies, and green grass here today. I took a long-ish walk along a shore-hugging road, and watched someone out sailing. What a wonderful feeling of vicarious freedom! This was also the perfect excuse to use up the last James Bond movie title. It was a pretty silly exercise, and I promise not to raise the spectre of its return in the future. I wish you...
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Having Fun | Melancholynoma
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Bittersweet thoughts about cancer. References – old. July 8, 2015. As the saying goes, “Time flies when you’re having fun” and I can attest to the truth of this. Somehow seven months have flown since I last updated this blog. Did you miss me? Be honest, now. What’s been happening to me (in blog order):. Tomorrow I get to see my oncologist ( Dr. Mc. And my psychiatrist ( Dr. C. Last week I had a PET scan and Dr. H. Rounded up all kinds of people (not sure where she found some of them) for a surprise party...
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Doctors | Melancholynoma
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Bittersweet thoughts about cancer. References – old. For your convenience (and occasionally mine) here is a list of the doctors involved in this whole saga of mine:. Dr A: my family doctor after late 2013 or so. Dr B: the plastic surgeon who took out the original tumour. Dr C: the psychiatrist. Dr D: the chemotherapy oncologist, now retired. Dr G: the general surgeon who performed the isolated limb perfusion. Dr H: the general surgeon who took out my popliteal lymph nodes. Dr L: the dermatologist.
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Learning | Melancholynoma
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Bittersweet thoughts about cancer. References – old. Here’s what I’ve learned:. In a more general way I am also much better at accepting things as they are. My tendency is to want things to be. Granted, that is a rather extreme example, but you see what I mean? Smiling, even if I don’t feel like it, can make me feel better. Laughter is good medicine. Having an upbeat piece of music running around my head is good too. I am much more aware of how my mind and my body work together and how ...If I believed i...
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When social media streams go silent – #hpm & #hcsmca combined chat | Colleen Young
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When social media streams go silent – #hpm and #hcsmca combined chat. September 23, 2014. Health care social media Canada. By Colleen Young, Christian Sinclair and Naheed Dosani. There are other examples, like Doug Gosling and his amazing writings in his blog Dying Digitally. Or Kate Granger (@GrangerKate), a palliative care doctor and terminally ill cancer patient musing about life and death. Some of the questions to be covered may include:. What happens when their social media channels go silent? How d...
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ThunderBird | Melancholynoma
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Bittersweet thoughts about cancer. References – old. September 5, 2014. The summer has just flown by, and that’s what I will be doing later today. A big, thundering bird will take me away from my first world 1% life and deposit me (indirectly) on a squalid Princess cruise ship which will in due course return me to my very own squalor. Sounds like hell, doesn’t it? But, please: I don’t need your sympathy. Really. I’ll get through this somehow. Recently a couple of long-time friends made it out here for 10...
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• A recommended book - What Helps. What Hurts. What Heals. - CarePages
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What Helps. What Hurts. What Heals. What Helps. What Hurts. What Heals. To receive email notifications of new posts. Posted Feb 11, 2012 12:26pm. What is a friend? Definitions from Merriam Webster’s, one attached to another by affection or esteem. To Webword’s a person with whom you are acquainted. Abound, as do idioms, from Persia’s, "It is better to be in chains with friends than to be in a garden with strangers". To Source Unknown’s , "A good friend is my nearest relation.". The intimate journal of a ...
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