Saturday, April 13, 2013
It’s been a weird week in Minnesota. According to the calendar, spring should be in full swing, but in the last three days it’s been like winter all over again. Monday morning, the park next door to my building was completely cleared of snow. Now there’s about six to eight inches of fresh snow. The forecast for Thursday looked so horrific that I rescheduled a surgery for Friday. Fortunately, it wasn’t a crucial surgery. I went in today and had my port removed, now that it’s done its job. (So I guess I have now been de-ported.)
April snowstorms aren’t unheard of in Minnesota, they’re just rare. The last April snow I remember was in 1984, and that was …
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
I started my cancer treatment today. It was a busy day, as I had both chemotherapy and radiation to deal with. The first step was the chemo. One drug they’re giving me, mitomycin, is administered in sight with a big syringe that kooks up to an IV line attached through the port they put in my chest on Monday. The stuff looks weird: it’s cobalt blue. By the time it enters my body, it’s been diluted with normal saline.
The other drug they’re giving me is called 5-fluorouracil, often abbreviated 5-FU. Many of us have an obscene nickname for the stuff. It’s so toxic and caustic that it has to be infused over a four-day period. So I’m wearing …
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Dorothy: “How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?”
The Scarecrow: “I wouldn’t know. But then, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.”
— The Wizard of OzMGM, 1939
Combing the Internet for inane things Michele Bachmann has said – and there is certainly no dearth of them – I came across what I believe may be the most truthful statement ever to issue forth from her lips:
“I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I’m not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I’m not a scientist.”
Bachmann – who has already demonstrated her lack of …
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