Tuesday, September 19, 2023

I meet with the oncologist Monday afternoon. He is attentive, and listens well, and talks to me like I am a real person. I am a real person but sometimes I forget.  I worry about the future.  How sick am I?  I have lived in the land of illness for the last two and a half years.  And my future is unknowable.

The free solitaire program on my computer closed down my game recently because I had used up my quota of allowed games for the day. News to me that there is a limit.

Today is treatment number 17 at the urology clinic.  I definitely know how to do this. But I still don’t like it. The twelve hour protocol starts at 7:30 this morning.

I am back to reading CANCERLAND, a medical memoir by Dr. David Scadden. He writes about the stem cell research at Harvard.  I continue to be interested in how the changing views of the human body shape the way diseases are viewed and treated.