Tag: brain tumors
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How to lose forty pounds without hardly trying
About a year ago I decided to lose weight again. I weighed nearly as much as I ever had. They say one of the sure signs of insanity is to do the same thing again and expect a different result. So likely if I went on another diet I would just end up putting it…
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A great news health update
I got some great news on Wednesday. I had to trek to Boston to get it from my oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital there. But based on an MRI taken on Monday, there’s no sign of cancer in my brain. Roughly four months after I learned I had a brain tumor, underwent surgery to remove…
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Update on my health
Having a brain cancer is no fun, particularly a glioblastoma which is a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer. But all things considered, having endured thirty-one radiation treatments, I’m doing pretty good. There is some small chance that radiation and chemotherapy will kill any of these tumor cells that are left. While there is nothing…
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The shadow of permanent disability
I’m trying to figure out if as a result of having a tumor removed from my brain recently whether I will have some sort of permanent disability. The short answer is that it is way too early to know. But certainly some of my assumptions on my recovery are proving incorrect. It’s easy for me…
Occam's Razor 