Published at: 03:03 pm - Wednesday March 21 2012
For a long time, complaining about the long and late-term side effects of radiation was a frequent theme on this blog. I haven’t bitched about being barbecued for a while now. That’s not because everything is just ducky, however. It’s only because (a) I got sick of talking about it, and (b) the problems it [...]
Published at: 02:08 pm - Wednesday August 24 2011
Shoulder Pain, Among Other Things I wasn’t going to write a post this week. I’ve just finished up the latest round of doctor visits, tests and diagnostic images that are required now to make sure that breast cancer has not returned. According to all this recent rigamarole, so far, it hasn’t. So, I get to [...]
Published at: 10:07 pm - Monday July 18 2011
“Your biopsy is positive.” Those were the words I heard when I found out I had cancer. I’ll never forget those words. I’ll never forget the day, the hour, where I was, what I was doing when I heard them. I’ll never forget the strange, weirdly comic experience of having the stereotactic [...]
Published at: 01:06 am - Wednesday June 01 2011
Sometimes, I feel like such an idiot. I’ve been promising to write a post about neuropathy, especially in the hands, which I know a lot of my readers suffer from. There are a few treatment modalities that we physical therapists can perform with patients who have neuropathy, that can reduce or eliminate it. I was [...]