Ruth's Medical-logical Meanderings

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, rounded with a little sleep". ~ Shakespeare, The Tempest Last night, I watched the PBS p...

It seems to happen at night. Usually I can call it chemo-induced insomnia, but perhaps it's just the dark and quiet lending itself to co...

Today, I have officially begun the long (I'm sure by the end it will seem very long) slog through the literature of the Sociology of Dea...

Last Friday was round four of terrible, awful chemotherapy. I'm not sure what went wrong or, more fairly, what went differently from the...

*cue sappy music "Cancer is a journey...and everyone's journey is different." Watching television the other night...well, list...

I have been building up to a bit of a meltdown recently. You can read too much about cancer and about people who have cancer and it can get ...

Chemo insomnia is a strange thing. I've had insomnia before, usually after choir practice (so much oxygen!) or a particularly ripping gr...