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Posted 2015-12-24T14:11:17Z

How am I?

I had my first “every-three-months-for-a-while” checkup with my oncologist 2 days ago, and it was largely the no-news-is-good-news kind of appointment. I did have various small complaints to discuss with her, but nothing she was concerned about. For those of you who may be following the medical details of this blog, for your own sake or someone else’s, here is a run-down of some of the more mundane aspects of my recovery, 3 ¾ months after surgery, and 4 ¾ months after my last chemo treatment.[...]

Posted 2015-12-21T00:14:01Z

An uncomfortable ride

Here's another picture from my trip to Israel, courtesy of fellow tourist Betsy (foreground), her husband Steve (on the camel with me), and our camel-ride-guide, a West Bank Jewish settler originally from Grand Rapids Michigan (picture-taker). Despite my big grin in this picture, I was actually quite uncomfortable on the camel (it's a very wide body!), and also quite uncomfortable to be doing a silly touristy thing in the occupied territories, which I hadn't realized would be the case until that morning.[...]