I have renewed faith that there are plenty of doctors who care a lot even if they can’t help, and I have renewed faith that really, we don’t know anything at all.  Just most people have stuff malfunction in the same sorts of ways.  Know how teenagers want to be different, but still fit in? [...]

I have this really crappy suspicion that I wasted the hema-oncologist’s time yesterday but seeing him was the surgeon’s idea, not mine. So either they got different pathology reports, or the surgeon was unclear on what it meant, or something… but if I’d known that basically a second opinion meant the oncologist read the same [...]

Hey, I haven’t said much lately, eh?  The bad news is it wasn’t because I was vacationing in an exotic locale. The good news is it isn’t because I was completely in a coma. I have learned a lot through this ordeal of apparently being somewhat biologically different than most humans. One is, doctors are [...]

I was putting together a much longer spiel, but honestly it just evokes a whole lot of stuff in my mind that runs from “really humans know nothing about how they really work” to “why the hell am I so stupid?” (To answer the second question, because no one likes to really accept that they’re [...]