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As of April 12, 2007, I'm taking nearly all of these every day. IV chemo and radiation treatments not shown. More details at the blog post.
We have an adjustable hospital-style bed in our bedroom. I hate sleeping in it because it means I feel ill and I'm away from my wife, who sleeps in the bed you can see on the left here. We're in the same room, but it feels wrong, so I stay in the big regular bed whenever I can.
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Jan 18 2008
As you know, I've been working with the colorectal service here at LAC-USC and I've made a lot of butt/poop jokes but it's time for me to be serious for a second. Everyone should be taking Metamucil daily - everyone! No matter how hard you try, it is impossible to get enough fiber in your diet to prevent future colonic dysfunction. By just having one spoonful of delicious tang-flavored psyllium fiber every day you can prevent constipation, anal fissures, diverticulosis, and even colon cancer. I've been having it everyday for about two years now, but only now working on this service do I realize how important it is! So go to your local grocery store and buy some fiber!
My wife noticed these strange pigmented marks growing into my fingernails. Apparently fingernail changes are a common side effect of the capecitabine (Xeloda/5FU) pills I take every day.
Back at the beginning of this year, the chemotherapy treatments I received made my hair thin and grey. My eyelashes similarly thinned out almost to unrecognizability... [Read more...]
Note the dry skin and dark pigmentation on my knuckles, a side effect of my current chemotherapy. Taken with six-year-expired colour print film, hence the retro look.
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Click the links on the notes to see photos of each thing in real life. We made this banner as a family at the kids' art therapy group at the B.C. Cancer Agency on May 26, 2007.
That would be this poster here. See my blog post about it. For maximum good mojo, it's hanging above the bed on which I recovered from my recent surgery, and on which I'll probably be spending more time this spring and summer. Let's just hope there's no earthquake to drop it on my head while I'm there.
Mouse intestinal cells with mutant APC misorient the mitotic spindle (green) and end up with extra chromosomes (blue) that might provoke colon cancer. (JCB 178(7) TOC1)
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Reference: Caldwell et al. (2007) J. Cell Biol. 178:1109-1120.
Published on: September 24, 2007.
Doi: 10.1083/jcb.200703186.
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