Ruth's Medical-logical Meanderings

I recently heard an NPR interview with David Sedaris, an essayist whose hilarious accounts of his OCD and French language lessons have lef...

"Let me tell you something, my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane." ~Shawshank Redemption A...

I’m sitting here getting my umpteenth infusion and thinking about the future. The future with me - the future with me and cancer...

A s most people already know, Roger Ebert recently died of cancer. He’d had it for a long time and although disfigured by it, still mainta...

I have no patience and Neurosurgery be damned! Since I had yet to be contacted by my neurosurgeon, I asked my regular oncologist at my c...

    Cancer is back on my mind, figuratively and perhaps literally.   Not that it ever leaves my mind for very long. But at my la...

Cancer has a way of making you focus on yourself like nothing else I’ve ever experienced. Your life, whether you admit it or not, is ...