Ruth's Medical-logical Meanderings

Once all of my surgeries were out of the way and I was stable and back to ‘normal’, I had the time to seriously confront what a diagnosis of...

First things first - a big shout out to all the people who have helped make my life easier through this past year by their spiritual, mental...

I have found in the many cancer-related blogs that I read that when things are going well for people, they blog less. This is my explanation...

"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...