Posts Tagged as ‘the beast’

July 16, 2010

my iPhone: a cure for chemo brain?

Apparently, there is life after chemo brain. I can’t prove it yet, but I may be on to something big. Okay, so my big idea might not be an original idea per se, but I could be the first person to report back with a firsthand account. Conventional wisdom holds that the brain of a [...]

June 29, 2010

weighing in sucks

For the last year, the scale on the sixth floor of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City has done nothing but torment me. Three times a month, I have to get weighed in, and it racks my nerves each time. You’d think that being slim would be the last thing I’d be concerned [...]

June 1, 2010

50′s 60-pound weight loss is only the half

Looking at pictures of 50 Cent’s dramatic weight loss takes me back to 2008, the year I had my surgery and started chemo. It sure wasn’t pretty, but more on that in a moment.   50 dropped 60 pounds — reportedly by adopting a liquid diet and walking on a treadmill for three hours a [...]