Ruth's Medical-logical Meanderings

Most people know, if not by first hand experience then by common knowledge, that chemotherapy makes you feel like crap. You feel nauseated a...

I had a conversation with my mother last night about how great the Gamma Knife is and how I'm glad that I don't have cancer back in ...

You know, I'm kind of tired of talking about cancer. It has become all-consuming and, although it can be interesting, I guess, and certa...

My first chemo was back on February 28th. Dressed in cancer t-shirts and companied by my daughters and sister, we descended on the Robert Lu...

In a recent article in the New York Times , Richard Sloan talks about personality traits and whether or not they have anything to do with su...

Surgery can make you feel less than human. You tolerate a parade of strangers who, although mean well, are there to rate and judge you or pa...

VATS is an acronym for Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (see photo) --> In my case, this surgery was done to get a large enough tissues sa...