Tag: cancer

• 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…

  Mark

  March 17, 2023

  Life 2023

  brain tumors, cancer, glioblastomas

• 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…

  Mark

  February 18, 2023

  Life 2022

  brain tumors, cancer, glioblastomas, Health

• Getting your brain zapped and a new hope

  This is my last post of 2022. Sorry for the self indulgence, but it’s not everyday that you discover you have a likely fatal disease and who knows? This information may be of use to others. I’ve let the thought that I will survive my brain cancer enter my mind. I am now on chemotherapy…

  Mark

  December 30, 2022

  Life 2022

  cancer, chemotherapy, radiation, Zofran

• Cane and able

  So it turns out that permanent disability is the least of my problems. Death is my real problem. If you read me regularly, you’ll know that I had a brain tumor removed on November 29. The good: the surgeon removed the whole thing. The bad: it’s cancerous, and not the kind of cancer likely to…

  Mark

  December 18, 2022

  Life 2022

  brain tumors, cancer, Death, Dying