After landing at Heathrow and getting my passport stamped, I followed the signage to find the Central Bus Station. I had pre-booked a bus ticket from Heathrow to Bristol, giving myself plenty of time (too much as it turned out) to get off the plane, wander over to the bus station, and catch my bus. I loitered in the bus… Read more »
I’m back from my gallivanting around the United Kingdom. As mentioned in the previous post, a friend and I decided to do a Scottish adventure. And in the midst of planning how to get there, I decided that I really needed to finally experience London. Long story short, I ended up booking a frequent-flyer award ticket from my hometown of… Read more »
So, readers of the blog may know that I’m somewhat addicted to traveling. And about a year and a half ago, I took a trip to Germany to visit a long-lost friend. Â Since then, we’ve whatsapp’ed and remained in touch. A few months ago, she mentioned that she really wanted to get away on a trip and somehow, we decided… Read more »
I just saw a very interesting article that highlights how researchers have developed a blood test to look for markers of melanoma DNA in a patient’s blood. The tests take only 48 hours to run (which is a pretty short timeframe), and as we all know, the quicker you can treat melanoma, the better the survival rates. So what this test… Read more »
Sorry I’ve been so quiet on the blog the last month or so. As you might remember, I mentioned that I was going on a trip with my husband for our anniversary. This trip was more than just a “get out-of-town to celebrate” kind of thing. You see, I have loved the idea of seeing the world ever since I… Read more »
I mentioned in a previous post that I work for a big data platform company, which I am hopeful can be used to really allow data to help make people’s lives better, healthier, and safer. One of the recent articles that has come out regarding artificial intelligence has a deeply personal aspect, skin cancer detection. Now, I know I wrote… Read more »
It’s February 4, 2017 and that means that it’s World Cancer Day. As I’ve written about right after my excision and then last year, it’s a weird day for me. I’m never sure if I even should count myself among the cancer survivors since I (so far, knock wood) have only had to deal with getting the excision. I realize… Read more »
In my previous post, I mused on how I developed the love for travel (OK, obsession). I know I sure as heck didn’t get it from my parents. But I can’t pass by a world map or an atlas without stopping to give it a long look. When you’re a kid, the world can seem very mysterious and foreign. That… Read more »
Astute readers of the blog may know that I’m pretty much addicted to travel. For me, traveling allows me to be more present in the moment, to experience different things, meet different people (whom I have no obligation to be completely personal about things because, well you know me), and see different places. I came from a family that really… Read more »
It’s time for my every-six-month follow-up. As you can tell by the title of this post, it was a good visit for the first time in a long time. While I had some spots I was concerned about, I know that I’m paranoid about anything on my skin that is reddish and circular. Fortunately, most of those will be benign… Read more »