Shit’s about to get real… •Clean bone marrow biopsy. Check. •Urgent dental work. Check. • Pass various medical tests: chest x-ray, pulmonary function, EKG, echocardiogram. Check. • Care team in place for the recovery period. Check. • Various sundry bureaucratic shenanigans dealt with. Check. • Funds raised for care team and living expenses during recovery….
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AML News, Part 11
A few more weeks have passed… where was I? Oh, right. Relapse. Three un-great options to get back into remission so that I can get the transplant. It turns out, there was another option. A new drug which was only approved in December of 2022. Olutasidenib. A drug so obscure that the UCSF team didn’t…
AML News, part 9
Oh, boy. Lots of stuff has been happening. This could be a long one. Let’s start with a crude outline: Introduction and wide angle update Party, On, Garth! overview Gratitude Party On, Garth! Booze license saga Looking ahead Introduction and updates Nearly all of the news is good. My short-term health continues to be OK….
AML Hospitalization News/Journal, Part 6
Well, it’s been a while, I suppose I should write another hospitalization post. The problem is, there’s very little news to report. I continue to be stuck in the hospital. I continue to feel OK. The doctors say I’ll be able to go home for a few weeks when my blood counts, especially the neutrophils,…
Way too early analysis of 2024 presidential candidates
Let’s take some time from my hospitalization posts at look at prospects for the 2024 US Presidential Election. The short version: things are looking utterly bleak. Irredeemably dismal. We the people must demand better. The Republicans: forget it. They’re all stark raving loony nutso mad. They’re unabashed bigots, every single one of ’em. They’re advocates…
Acute Myeloid Leukemia Hospitalization Journal, parts 1-3
This series started as a news report for concerned friends and relatives in Facebook and through email. Interest in it is greater that I’d anticipated, and I’m having trouble keeping track of who I’ve sent which parts to. So, I’ll move it to the blog where interested folks can check when they want. March…
The Quest for Simplicity
A big part of the nature photographer’s job is to find grace and simplicity in the chaotic jumble of the natural world. We visit a bunch of straggly pine trees on a bluff overlooking the ocean. There’s a tangled mess of branches and trunks and needles pointing everywhichaway. Where’s the photo in that? Find a…
Why I am mean to anti-vaxxers
Dear Anti-vaxxer, No, I will not watch your three-hour celebration of stupid on Youtube. No, I will not read the latest screed on some obscure rightwing “news” site. No, I will not calmly, respectfully rebut every single point in your preposterous Gish Gallop. We’ve been through all of this over and over and over and…
A Complete History of the Biden Administration
January 20, 2025 On the eve of the inauguration of our next President, it seems like a good time to look back on the history of the previous administration. Joe Biden swept into power with a convincing victory in the election of 2020. His message of “I’m not Trump” resounded with the electorate so dramatically…
Iowa Dumpster Fire
I’ve been a bad, bad blogger. I haven’t posted anything in a million years, and now I’m making a post with a relevant shelf life of a couple of days. Oh, well… I’m still perplexed about this whole Iowa dumpster fire. How could party officials be so spectacularly incompetent? Either they’re really crappy at running…