A late March snowstorm triggers Christmas, Kate Middleton has cancer, ‘Winter’s Bone’ (2010), ‘Hitler,’ by Joachim Fest, ‘Detour’ (1945).
Another Week: Number 65
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Here is a list of content tagged “cancer” on MarkCz.com.
Another Week: Number 50
Amy too weak on Wednesday after Monday chemo, ‘The Thing About Pam’(2022), ‘Hard Knocks: In Season With the Miami Dolphins,’ ‘The Year the Earth Changed’ (2021)
Another Week: Number 45
Trying to balance all the effects and side effects of Amy’s cancer, ‘Now and Then — The Last Beatles Song,’ ‘Bosch: Legacy’ (Season 2), ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’
Another Week: Number 44
Amy’s meager diet; Chicago Bears 30, Las Vegas Raiders 12; ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ (2019), Nile Rodgers & CHIC: Tiny Desk Concert
Another Week: Number 43
Amy’s an outpatient with low platelets and edema; ‘Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe,’ ‘We Don’t Talk About Leonard,’ ‘Renfield (2023),’ ‘The Insurrectionist Next Door (2023),’ ‘The Descent (2005)’
Another Week: Number 42
Amy in the hospital all week: low platelets and edema replace headaches and vomiting; Tracy Morgan: ‘Takin’ It Too Far,’ Neal Young: ‘Comes a Time.’
Another Week: Number 41
Cornered by cancer, ‘Children of Men’ (2006), Jason Isbell: ‘Southeastern,’ Live at the Bijou Theatre 2022, ‘Sleepy Hollow’ (1999), Chicago Bears 40, Washington Commanders 20
Another Week: Number 39
Some uplifting cancer results, ‘Dark Winds‘: Season 1, ‘Daisy Jones & the Six,’ ‘Theater Camp’ (2023), Dua Lipa in Conversation With Patti Smith, Author of ‘Just Kids’
Another Week: Number 38
Our cancer Habitrail continues, Bears lose to Packers, ‘Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015),’ ‘Shiva Baby’ (2020), ‘Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap: Every Song Tells a Story’ (2014), ‘By Design: The Joe Caroff Story’ (2022)
Another Week: Number 36
‘Oppenheimer (2023),’ ‘Telemarketers,’ ‘BS High’ (2023), ‘Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty’: Season 2, ‘Scarface’ (1983), ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ (2022
Another Week: Number 35
Our rollercoaster existence, ‘My Old School’ (2022), ‘Windy City Rehab: Alison’s Dream Home,’ ‘Reservation Dogs’: Season 3, ‘Full Circle’
Another Week: Number 8
A death in my family, Super Bowl LVII, ‘Marc Maron: From Bleak to Dark,’ Mike Pence fights a subpoena, ‘Nate Bargatze: Hello World,’ Bing + ChatGPT = HAL 9000?
‘The Emperor of All Maladies’: Cancer history bestseller
I haven't blogged in months. I've been mostly absent from Twitter and Facebook as well. Initially, I wanted to spend less time in these scattered and distracted modes of thought, and more time on focused and linear avenues like reading books. But then my wife Amy was...
Chemotherapy-friendly food from a cancer cookbook
I took yesterday to make some staples to have on hand for the upcoming weeks. Mark and I are trying to figure out what I should and shouldn’t be eating. We were supposed to meet with a dietitian on my first day of chemotherapy treatment but for some reason, her schedule was backed up and she couldn’t meet with us. The doctor did give me a short list of things to eat but I wanted maybe some options and recipes as well.
‘Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson
My sister recently gifted me with a copy of the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, published last year by Simon & Schuster. At 571 pages plus notes and index, it's a hefty volume, and Isaacson's plain and linear telling makes the book seem daunting at first...
Lungs in transplants came from smokers
At first, I thought this was a Monty Python sketch when I heard this story about lung transplants this morning on the BBC's World Update: BBC News: Smokers' lungs given to patients Of course, as it turns out, it's not funny at all. There's a shortage of organ donors,...
The grace of Elizabeth Edwards
Back in October of 2004, my wife Amy was working at the Maidenform store in Pleasant Prairie's Prime Outlets shopping center. One morning — October 21st, to be exact — Amy phoned home to tell me that there was some unusual activity in...