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Hospital Girls

This is a true story. They did it often.  They all worked late night shift and they often would sit in the hall on their chairs leaning on their rollling cart that holds their computer, screen and all the other stuff they need to wake you up at the wee hours to do something – […]

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Cancer update August

August 12, 2025 Since the end of May, until mid June, I did what I said I was going to do: care for Rita, get a dumpster and clean out years of being poor, play some pickleball and try to figure out and plan for the future.  After my liver surgery, I did try doing […]

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May 26, 2025

Not much happened today, cancerwise

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May 10, 2025

Yesterday, I met with Dr. Ryan Levy, a lung surgeon at Passavant Hospital in Pittsburgh. His evaluation is that I am a candidate for lung surgery to remove the cancer in the upper right lobe. The statistics he quoted was that with surgery, I have a 85% chance of removing all the cancer. The only […]

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May 4, 2025

On May 2, at 9:30 am I started the chemo pill Capecitabine. As instructed, I ate something to eat and took an anti-nausea pill (prochoperazine) 20 minutes prior. About two hours later, I had my first case of diarrhea. However, it was only that one occurrence. Since then, I have had minor nausea symptoms and […]