Mauled by a Student Nurse

Alert readers will recall that Cancer Bitch has a rare blood disease that borders on cancer. It becomes cancer when plaintiffs' lawyers ...

Media coverage in two time zones

Cancer Bitch has been in the news lately: Grand Rapids Press , March 15, 2009 Time Out Chicago , March 19-25, 2009

Good-bye, Grand Rapids

Cancer Bitch has returned from Grand Rapids, the town where Gerald Ford is still a hero. She had many adventures there. Among them: She foun...

Coattails

I have been trying to figure out for the last week and half why we want to get our pictures taken with the famous. We're projecting a fa...

Grand Rapids, the West Coast of Michigan

(The photo to the left is not from Grand Rapids.) I am in Grand Rapids , home of the Gerald Ford airport, which doesn't bother me half a...

In Line

(On Line, for you East Coasters.) I stopped at the Large Pharmacy to pick up two prescriptions before I leave town on Monday for the first s...

Local public service announcements

Saturday, March 14, Loyola Water Tower Campus: Ethical Journalism in a Digital World, brought to you by the Chicago Headline Club and Poynte...

Good news about ovarian cancer?

A study shows that the CA-125 blood test and ultrasounds can help diagnose ovarian cancer in post-menopausal (which is the same as menopaus...

Results

hysteroscopy photos, San Francisco Women's Healthcare, Inc. So I called the doctor again and left a plaintive message with the assistan...

The Unringing Phone

They say they're going to call, in a week, on Thursday. So on Thursday you wait. You don't have to wait at home anymore like people...

On the other other hand...

...the blood test showed that my cholesterol is a slender 133, down about 50 points from last year. I have been eating more vegetables, but ...

More from the Annals of Polycythemia Vera

L's office brings in people to test our blood every year in a "wellness screening." I have polycythemia vera, that in layman...