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	<title>Apoica &#187; cancer</title>
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	<description>musings on the social contract</description>
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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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		<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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		<category><![CDATA[emotions]]></category>
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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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		<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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		<category><![CDATA[blood transfusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C. difficile]]></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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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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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>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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		<category><![CDATA[Polistes]]></category>
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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 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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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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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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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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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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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=344</guid>
		<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>Colony and individual: Cancer and cheating wasps</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/30/colony-and-individual-cancer-and-cheating-wasps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/30/colony-and-individual-cancer-and-cheating-wasps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 01:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I study wasps.  That&#8217;s what I do. Solitary wasps, like most animals, live their life . . . well, in solitude.  Except to mate, they tend to stay away from other members of their own species.  Some build small nests for their young, and some provide a modicum of parental care—the first steps toward social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Katharine Hepburn</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/29/being-katharine-hepburn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/29/being-katharine-hepburn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the drugs I&#8217;m on for immunosuppression makes me shake constantly.  It&#8217;s getting annoying. This side effect, coupled with the neuropathy in my hands, makes simple tasks, like lifting a fork, difficult.  I wonder if this is a glimpse into how people with Parkinson&#8217;s feel?  Probably nowhere nearly as bad, but it bites nonetheless. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer is material</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/29/cancer-is-material/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/29/cancer-is-material/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll notice I&#8217;ve added that image to the blog, a link to The OUT Campaign, a site dedicated to encouraging atheists to come out about their views.  This is something that I&#8217;ve had a hard time doing for many years, despite overcoming many other fears years ago (for example, having been out as a gay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Oh, congratulations on your stem cell transplant!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/24/oh-congratulations-on-your-stem-cell-transplant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/24/oh-congratulations-on-your-stem-cell-transplant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had cancer for many years (officially diagnosed two months shy of four years ago, but I had it for years before it was finally diagnosed).  So, I know that many people—most people—have no idea what to say to you when they find out or when they see you after you&#8217;ve been ill, or [...]]]></description>
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