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		<title>Many cards in our favor, some we dealt ourselves</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/06/11/many-cards-in-our-favor-some-we-dealt-ourselves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/06/11/many-cards-in-our-favor-some-we-dealt-ourselves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=1054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this recent blog post, I discussed how my recovery after stem cell transplant has been much faster than average, and there are probably many reasons why that might be.  No doubt the fact that my donor&#8217;s genetic markers matched my own perfectly—well, the genetic markers that hospitals check were a perfect match, anyway.  There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She&#8217;s with Ehrenreich</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/06/10/shes-with-ehrenreich/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/06/10/shes-with-ehrenreich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=1077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My good friend, Johanna Wilson, recently posted a comment to my last blog.  I find it so compelling that I&#8217;ve deleted the comment and reproduced it here in its entirety.  It is honest, humble (perhaps a bit too self-deprecating, though), and I think quite representative of the way people with cancer feel—and a strong denunciation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop Culture Watch: Optimism and cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/06/09/pop-culture-watch-optimism-and-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/06/09/pop-culture-watch-optimism-and-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=1068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From a recent episode of the fantastic series, Glee (quote from the character Shelby Corcoran, played by the even more fantastic Idina Menzel): I wanna a look so optimistic, it could cure cancer. More evidence that Ehrenreich&#8217;s thesis is correct.  People!  That ain&#8217;t it.]]></description>
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		<title>Say &#8220;Goodbye&#8221; to all of this . . .</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/06/04/say-goodbye-to-all-of-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/06/04/say-goodbye-to-all-of-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=1027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Greg and I moved back to our home in Vermont today.  Now, instead of weekly visits to the hospital in Boston, we&#8217;ll only have monthly visits.  This would&#8217;ve come much earlier had it not been for the (likely) false diagnosis of CMV and the myelosuppressive therapy that ensued, which may well have been key to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s mono, and then there&#8217;s mono</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/27/theres-mono-and-then-theres-mono/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/27/theres-mono-and-then-theres-mono/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 06:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cytomegalovirus]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=945</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post I discussed cytomegalovirus (CMV) primarily in relation to its impact on the immunosuppressed—people with AIDS and those of undergoing a stem cell transplant, for example. As a prelude to that discussion, I mentioned that CMV causes mononucleosis.  This piqued a reader&#8217;s interest: . . .[I] found it interesting that CMV was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism and cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/23/capitalism-and-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/23/capitalism-and-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 06:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[materialism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Engels]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=909</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The amazing Barbara Ehrenreich makes a connection, just after the crash of 2008, the 160th anniversary of the publication of the pamphlet that ignited the world: The Manifesto makes for quaint reading today. All that talk about “production,” for example: Did they actually make things in those days? Did the proletariat really slave away in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comments button</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/19/comments-button/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/19/comments-button/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 05:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m 98.4632% sure that the comments submit button now appears.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Five hours!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/16/five-hours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/16/five-hours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 16:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader&#8217;s email: Five hours!  Few of us healthy folks do that &#8230; at least not often enough! As we learned in desert survival school, if something CAN grow, something WILL. And that is the history of our planet.  More things grow than die.  In the midst of cancer treatment, it&#8217;s a tonic to know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith in a seed</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/15/faith-in-a-seed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/15/faith-in-a-seed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 00:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Greg and I (masked and gloved) went to Walden Pond for a second visit, this time with our dear friends Alison and John.  We hiked the trails for a few hours.  There was life all around us—trees, insects, birds, and mammals were obvious everywhere we walked.  Walking with my loved ones, I thought of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My &#8220;cold&#8221; is gone</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/14/my-cold-is-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/14/my-cold-is-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 16:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears that I&#8217;m over whatever I had. My nose has stopped running, and my slight cough has resolved as well. I felt a bit under the weather yesterday, but I&#8217;m feeling better today—not as good as before this scare, but I&#8217;m getting stronger again. So much of this process is unknown, but a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Er, uh . . . I meant totalitarian</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/12/er-uh-i-meant-totalitarian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/12/er-uh-i-meant-totalitarian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 20:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A good friend recently pointed out his surprise at my use of the word communist in this post, given my political leanings. He&#8217;s right; that wasn&#8217;t the right word. What I meant was totalitarian.  I do think that the cells in our body are locked in a kind of communism, but the negative aspect I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some not-so great news</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/12/some-not-so-great-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/12/some-not-so-great-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 20:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My last post was an honest and authentic expression of my thoughts and feelings about my current state of being.  I wasn&#8217;t hiding anything.  But there is something else going on. This morning I awoke with a runny nose and some congestion.  This could be a minor bacterial infection, which would not likely be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some great news, biology, and cooperation</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/12/some-great-news-biology-and-cooperation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/12/some-great-news-biology-and-cooperation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 17:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel amazing. I am so energetic, I can barely contain it.  Anyone who has spoken to me on the phone lately can attest.  For the last two weeks, my energy and strength has been rising every day, and now I feel better than I&#8217;ve felt in years.  In early 2007, I was in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who loves the sun?</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/09/who-loves-the-sun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/09/who-loves-the-sun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 06:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=504</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I do. Being from Louisiana, and now living just south of the arctic circle, I need the sun.   But I can&#8217;t be out in it.   Sunlight can stimulate my immune system (particularly the immune-boosting helper T-cells), which will lead to that conflict I wrote about in the last post, known as Graft Versus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapping about evolution, sociality, cheaters and slugs</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/08/rapping-about-evolution-sociality-cheaters-and-slugs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/08/rapping-about-evolution-sociality-cheaters-and-slugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 15:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article appeared in the NY Times a couple of days ago. I have my doubts about the general appeal of a rap performance about evolutionary biology, but maybe it&#8217;s great. Who knows? You can investigate Baba Brinkman&#8217;s &#8220;The Rap Guide to Evolution&#8221; for yourself here and here. Of particular interest, the article highlights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patched up comments function</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/06/patched-up-comments-function/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/06/patched-up-comments-function/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 17:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of you have emailed me to say that you can&#8217;t figure out how to leave a comment. The way it was set up was a bit awkward, I admit.  So first, I tried some stopgap measures a kludge designed to lead the reader to the comments section, but that meant breaking my posts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ol&#8217; Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/06/ol-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/06/ol-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 16:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve received a somewhat strong response to my last post, which is great. Keep the comments and email coming. Regarding that post, many have questioned my final comment about sympathy for my cancer. To be sure, I chose that word to be provocative, but I do have sympathy for all life that is marked for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conflict between the individual and the group</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/05/conflict-between-the-individual-and-the-group/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/05/conflict-between-the-individual-and-the-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 14:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social contract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Transcendentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polistes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stem cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoreau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wasps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I know.  I didn&#8217;t actually blog again last night.  Sorry for that, but since I&#8217;ve been feeling so, so, so much better, I&#8217;ve begun to realize just how much work I was laying aside.  I&#8217;ve been catching up. So as a mini-catchup,  I&#8217;ll offer this symbol and some thoughts: This is a nest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A clean bill of health</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/04/a-clean-bill-of-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/04/a-clean-bill-of-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 19:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[illness journaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C. difficile]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[white blood cells]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what I got today.  Except for not knowing if the cancer is really gone . . . and my magnesium levels are not back yet, and my C. difficile sample won&#8217;t be finished until tomorrow, and my white blood cells were down slightly.  But in general, I&#8217;m doing great.  And I have to say, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy (and greasy) today, hospital visit tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/03/busy-and-greasy-today-hospital-visit-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/03/busy-and-greasy-today-hospital-visit-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 03:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illness journaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blood transfusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magnesium]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve received tons of great feedback from the blog, and I fully intend to keep blogging, hopefully one or two posts per day minimum. But today I had a lot of work to catch up on (some of which I got done), and the fact that we can&#8217;t bathe makes me sleepy, greasy and grumpy [...]]]></description>
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