Thursday, January 1, 2009

No more golf

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Well today I tried to play golf for the first time since the diagnosis. My back pain has been present but manageable so I popped a vicodin ...

Happy New Year...and a change in luck

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I took Jill out to dinner last night at Spago to celebrate New Year's Eve. Actually, more to say a giant "screw you 2008" but...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

City of Dopes strikes again...

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I'm really starting to be bothered by the utter ineptitude of the administrative people there. First, they claimed (incorrectly) that I...
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Monday, December 29, 2008

Get down with the sickness...

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I'm sure the title will be lost on most of you, but it's a song title. As it happens, it also relates to chemotherapy. I've ment...

City of Dopes

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These people, administratively, leave a lot to be desired. We got a call at home today, informing me that my appointment tomorrow has been u...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

New resolve

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I've been doing more reading on Dr. BB's work (almost slipped up and used his full name...although who am I kidding, anybody who doe...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

A lousy day

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Today's been rough. I've been reading a few other blogs from people that have gone through what I'm about to go through and the...
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Friday, December 26, 2008

A few more things before my return to City of Hope...

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Well, I've come a long way in terms of my knowledge of the disease since the last time I met with Dr. SF. He told me that on some level...
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Casting the net wide...or, crackpots and kooks and quacks, oh my!

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I am a big fan of Western medicine. At the same time, I do believe that the mind and body are one, and that having a positive attitude will ...
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The MMRF and Kathy Giusti

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I'll use a full name, not initials, for this remarkable woman. The previous day, before I was going to see Dr. ML, PinnacleCare had conn...
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Research and a visit with Dr. ML

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Over the following several days, I did some of my own reading and research, and asked PinnacleCare to do the same. They pulled together sta...
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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Doctor proliferation...

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Since there's no cure for MM, and there have been a lot of new drugs developed in the last 10 years to help combat it, there are a myria...
Friday, December 19, 2008

City of Hope, First Visit

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A couple of weeks later, I went to Dr. SF at the City of Hope. City of Hope is one of the top cancer centers in the US -- it has a huge cam...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

More research before the second opinion

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Dr. SH advised me to keep off the Internet...it's a very depressing place for this, filled with old research, backward-looking forecasts...

Dr. SH Explains My Diagnosis and Treatment Options

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On Friday, November 14th I went with Jill to Dr. SH's office. We sat down and Dr. SH gave us a very thorough briefing on the disease, a...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Life-Changing Phone Call

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...or so I thought. Two days later, on November 13th, I got a call around 2:30PM from Dr. SH. He told me that he had looked at my bone marr...
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First visit to Dr. SH

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I went to visit Dr. SH on Nov. 7, 2008 to do further diagnostics. I had so much blood drawn that I told the Doctor if I didn't have ane...
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What is Myeloma (Basic version)

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So what exactly is this thing? While Dr. PZ in his non-alarmist way referred to it obliquely as a "malignancy of the blood" it is,...
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Diagnosis

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Many of you know this already...but I've got some catching up to do for those who don't and if I'm going to do this blog thing r...
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Blog Basics

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Just some basics up-front to help you make heads or tails of all this. I'm going to publish more or less in the order that my own unders...
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