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Mom and Me Adventure – Sailing Away

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After spending a few days showing my mom around Vancouver, it was time to board our cruise ship. I booked us to stay at the Fairmont Waterfront, located right across the street from the cruise ship terminal, in order to make the transfer as easy as possible. So we repacked, grabbed our suitcases and literally walked across the street and… Read more »

Mom and Me Adventure – Vancouver

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First Nations totem poles in Stanley Park, Vancouver

My mom’s first international flight was pretty uneventful and that’s a good thing. We headed out of the Vancouver airport, dragging our oversized suitcases to the taxi line. Some jerk completely cut the line in front of us – nudging me out of the way with his shoulder to ensure he was one spot ahead of us. Because of my… Read more »

Mom and Me Adventure – Mom’s First International Flight

First Nations artwork pieces in Vancouver Intenational Airport

My mom had never flown internationally before and was really nervous about the whole immigration and customs process. Heck, I forced her to (finally) get her first passport for this adventure. There was no way I could just meet her in a connecting airport either with her lack of texting skills; so I had her fly down to Austin for… Read more »

Mom and Me Adventure – The Set-up

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Because I love to torment you with my travel misadventures, I’m going to be recounting the trip my mom and I are currently on. So far, I have not ended up in jail or disowned; so it must be going better than I feared. As mentioned previously, my parents are/were not travelers (how exactly did I spring from those two… Read more »

Preparing for Some Serious Parental Bonding

As mentioned in a previous post, I’m taking my mom on a trip to Alaska. In fact, she’s on her way to Austin as I type this. After looking at my work calendar (but mostly based on the flight connections and prices to fly from Ohio), I decided to have her fly here to start the trek. I’m excited but… Read more »

Hot or Not – Your Melanoma, That Is

Unless this is your first time to this blog (and if so, hi; take a look around and ignore the sarcasm long enough to realize I am actually a nice person), you know that I use a lot of pixels to chat about immunotherapy. What you may not know (I honestly didn’t), is that apparently there’s a classification for melanomas… Read more »

Finally Getting My Fiftieth

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Before you even start making elderly jokes, this post is not about my age 😉 I’ve discussed my travel addiction in a number of other posts on this blog so it should be no surprise that one of my weird life goals – in addition to seeing a game in every NHL arena (halfway there), standing on the Prime Meridian… Read more »

What Are Clark and Breslow Staging Models?

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Ok, as I was typing that title, I was thinking to myself, didn’t I got to high school with Clark Breslow? But actually, his first name is Nate. Hopefully he never needs to read a blog about melanoma, but if he does – what’s up dude? Still got your skateboard? Anyway, for those of you that actually come to this… Read more »

Melanoma TNM Staging – Breaking Down What All Those Letters and Numbers Mean

In my previous post, I talked about the new changes to the guidelines for diagnosing and treating melanoma. One of the changes affects the definitions of melanoma stages. But I realized as I was talking about those changes that some people may not know what all of those letters and numbers mean. To complicate matters further, there are actually a… Read more »

Updated Melanoma Treatment Guidelines

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I’ve had this tab open on my browser for some time, waiting for the day that my headache would subside enough for me to write. But seeing as I will likely have a permanent headache for the foreseeable future (and yes, I did go to a doctor and they told me basically that it was all in my head –… Read more »