being a patient

I am recuperating from my surgery. It has been 8 days now. I am starting to get to the annoyed stage. The seriously annoyed stage. First of ...

I haven't been so trapped at home since chemo. Then I was too sick to care that I spent my life inside watching TV, hanging out with the...

As part of the universal pinkification of October, Good Housekeeping magazine has a section on breast cancer (who knew?). But one thing they...

This morning I go off to my primary care for my annual physical. Although there are lingering thoughts of 'what if she finds something b...

In years gone by, doctors were regarded as gods. They knew all, were not to be questioned and patients should obey unquestioningly. Those da...

I realize that a lot of academia, where medical research often happens, primarily uses Apple computers - desktops, iPads, and iPhones. Howev...

What is the best way to survive ailments? First of all, one step at a time. And take as many breaks as possible to have fun. That is what I ...

I don't know about anyone else but I have a primary care and then an oncologist, breast surgeon, endocrinologist, rheumatologist, pain m...

One of the big reasons I started my blog in 2007 was to allow time to digest news as I received it through my breast cancer diagnosis and tr...

How many times when you are talking to your doctor have you heard them say 'new research says...' or 'recent studies have shown....

You get one ailment, and it always seems to bring along its 'friends'. A few examples are cancer with chemotherapy causes digestive ...

Life does not stop with a cancer diagnosis. It should not. If you have cancer, you are still a person. You do not need to let cancer take ov...

Personally, I do not consider myself to be a complicated person. However, alas, my health is very complicated. Yes. I am the kind of patient...

I know this is a popular subject with people with cancer - how and how not to help them. Some people are idiots. I can tell you story after ...

So my life is having its normal ups and downs. There are definitely the good, the bad, and the ugly. What is good? A whole bunch of things: ...

After I stretch, I'm going out for my last long run before the Boston MArathon. I'll stick to a few shorter runs between now and the...

What if I could be normal and when I tried to be a healthy person I could actually do it without having to spend time recovering? Yesterday ...

So we all get these weird feelings sometimes. Something starts aching, or tingling, or twitching, or pinching, or just not feeling right. We...

And it was nice. I went to visit my brother for the weekend. And didn't really see him. He had a kidney stone (and a lot nastier word to...

We hear all about good doctors and not so good ones. But every so often we hear about the one's you really do not want. Yesterday someon...