Showing posts with label Cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cancer. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

'And it's just sometimes an excruciatingly heightened awareness of being, loving being alive..."

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Caitlin Flanagan wrote " I Thought Stage IV Cancer Was Bad Enough " at the Atlantic in June. Not many people, myself included, kno...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Senator John McCain Returns (VIDEO)

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This is the state of our discourse. Worse than ever. Simply no decency left in American politics. At Twitchy, " ‘I hope he dies rig...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Dodgers, #Angels Have Mixed Reaction to Tobacco After Death of Tony Gwynn

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I guess Tony Gwynn attributed his cancer to smokeless tobacco. I thought "What the heck?" when I heard he'd passed . He was ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Back From the Colonoscopy

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I mentioned my procedure this morning. The test itself is a cakewalk. It's the bowel-cleansing preparations that were a pain. But I&#...

No More Colonoscopies?

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Here's this, just as I go today for my first colonoscopy. At WSJ, " New Ways to Screen for Colon Cancer No More Colonoscopies? Le...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Life-Shaming

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A follow-up to this story, " Lisa Bonchek Adams and the Politics of Blogging About Cancer ." From John Nolte, at Big Journalism,...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Lisa Bonchek Adams and the Politics of Blogging About Cancer

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At the Atlantic, " On Live-Tweeting One's Suffering: Journalists question the ethics of cancer—of fighting it, and of blogging abou...
Monday, June 3, 2013

Michael Douglas Backs Off Claim of Oral Sex Throat Cancer Cause

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Here's this morning's New York Post, " Michael Douglas: Oral sex gave me cancer ." He's trying to back out of the cl...