Last night, thanks in part to ongoing GI disruption (including serial outbreaks of flatulence that sounded like the Trumps of Doom a'blowing) I slept pretty fitfully. Lorazepam can only do so much, after all. This led to dreams, as such things do. It's all fragments now, but among other things ( Read more... )

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After correspondence with my agent yesterday, I can update the state of play on various projects.

Sunspin (four volume space opera): She really likes the revisions to volume one, Calamity of So Long a Life. I need to produce a short marketing-focused synopsis, about ten pages covering all four books, and she has suggested one more line editing ( Read more... )

Recently I observed:
It occurred to me recently that one way to think about my cancer risks is that we're all dying, I'm just probably dying a little faster than most of my peers.

Somewhat in parallel to that and a few days later, ( Read more... )

Saw the oncologist yesterday immediately after my bloodwork. This isn't the usual order of things, as they prefer to see me the same day as the chemo infusion, but that's how the scheduling fell out. As, happily enough, I managed to get through this past chemo cycle with no major side effects crises, we wound up talking about my mental and ( Read more... )

Over the last few days I’ve been going through every single blog post since April of 2008 in order to build an index of my cancer blogging. As of last night, that would be 768 posts out of about 4,000. The raw index (ie, not yet curated by me) can be seen here.

It’s been quite a journey. Reliving the original presentation and the multiple ( Read more... )

Several folks have pointed me towards the most current xkcd, which talks about cancer and survival rates in that inimitable xkcd fashion ( Read more... )

A reader reacts to "The Passion of Mother Vajpai" - Short fiction from me and ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a mighty full day at the Day Jobbe trade show here in Las Vegas. Afterwards, I went to dinner with friends here at Picasso's in the Bellagio. The conversation was wide ranging and excellent, and the food was, well, nigh indescribable ( Read more... )

Norwescon weekend was both rewarding and difficult for me. While I was there, I received an outpouring of love and support from both dear friends and total strangers. But I also found myself uncharacteristically withdrawn, overwhelmed, fatigued. I can already see my healthy mindset melting away and my patient mindset asserting itself in the fog of ( Read more... )