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Last week was a very rough week and that's why it's been a minute since my last post. It started off with another week of extremely low...

On Monday, the thing that Jess and I hoped wouldn't happen, happened. My chemotherapy was stopped for this week. I'd seen other patients...

This past week was full of some pretty significant progress and big changes. It started on Sunday, when I decided to try a smoothie. Jess...

Sing us a song, you're the piano man, sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody and you've got us feeling...

Week 1 of chemotherapy is in the books and week 2 has started. Week 1 was like an old Clint Eastwood spaghetti western: The Good, the...

We arrived at the oncology center a little before 9:00 and no sooner had we sat down, it was time for me to go back through the double...

Good morning boys and girls, today we're going to talk about tube feeding: the process, the procedure, the equipment. But first, a...

Yesterday was a pretty busy day. It started with the biopsy of my right lymph node in my neck. Let's talk about this procedure. So, I...

I've had a few good days and with what's on the horizon, I'll take them! My body seems to be getting more used to the tube feeding and...

Nausea is one of those words I always have trouble spelling (restaurant is up there too). But now, after typing it out so many times in...

Feeding tubes are weird. It's like a long, flexible straw right into your stomach. Four times a day I have to flush it with a big syringe...

One of my mentors at VCFA (the Vermont College of Fine Arts) once told me that, as a writer, you want to make your characters really earn...

Today is my last day as an unencumbered, unfettered man. It is also, as Jess says, my last day of starving to death (the weight keeps...

Day 1... but not really, because this didn't start today, but the blog did and a blog journal kind of thing has to start somewhere and...