The days are getting shorter in the Northern Hemisphere and this time of year always makes me sleepy. But a recent post on Facebook by a husband and wife account detailing her battle with Stage Four breast cancer got me thinking… You see, a few years ago at the tail end of my time in San Antonio, I suffered from… Read more »
I’m kind of a workaholic. Attribute that to my mom, who worked tirelessly from the time she was young until just a few years ago. She held a variety of low-paying grunt jobs while I was growing up – dishwasher, assembly in a factory – the kind of jobs that most normal people would call in sick on a regular… Read more »
I’ve spent the past five days running around New York City, a combination of fun and work purposes. Over the weekend, my hubby and I spent time on the Lower East Side – hanging out at various little cozy restaurants, drinking in some classy and not-so-classy bars, walking all over lower Manhattan. Then on Monday, with work duties looming, we… Read more »
It’s back-to-school time for a lot of families here in the United States and my Facebook feed is stuffed full of images of friends’ children all decked out for the first day of school. I have no children and generally scroll past these images thinking to myself “how the hell did my friends get so old that they could have… Read more »
I just returned from a trip to the Pacific Northwest. As mentioned in a previous post, it’s hot in Austin in the summer and I was looking to take a break from the heat this summer. Plus, Washington was one of the last 6 states I had left to visit. So Seattle seemed to fit the bill in more ways… Read more »
Well, I had my every-6-months appointment with the dermatologist today. As you can guess from the title of this post, I had another piece of my skin cut off for biopsy. You see, I’ve had this…thing…on my back. It popped up a little less than a month ago and I first noticed it while struggling to put lotion on my back…. Read more »
Apologies if you’re not a basketball fan (and particularly if you’re a Golden State Warriors fan), you may want to skip this post… Although I now live in Austin, I was born and raised in Northern Ohio. If you’re a fan of professional basketball in the United States, you know that the Cleveland Cavaliers finally broke the drought of sports… Read more »
I’ve posted a few times regarding immunotherapy (both its historical context as well as newer attempts using microneedles). I just came across another article that shows promise in treating melanoma with targeted and personalized melanoma cancer vaccines, using the patients’ own immune system to help combat the disease. In the article, two melanoma patients whose cancer had metastasized to the… Read more »
Sorry I’ve been a little quiet on the blog for the last couple of weeks. I’m recovering from surgery for something completely unrelated to melanoma. It’s funny how much your body will force you to rest when it undergoes something invasive. I couldn’t keep my eyes open for days. However, I know I’m on the road to recovery when my… Read more »
I live in Texas, where there’s been a pattern of rainy weather moving in. Fortunately, I don’t live in Houston, which has been inundated with 20 inches of rain and counting in the last week or so. Texas has been in a long-term drought situation for a number of years. In fact, when I moved here seven years ago (wait,… Read more »