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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>
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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<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>&#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>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
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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>
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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>
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		<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>
				<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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		<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>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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=347</guid>
		<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>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>
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		<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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		<title>Boo Yankees!</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/01/boo-yankees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/01/boo-yankees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 23:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t read the literature on this myself, but my oncologist tells me the data are strong that taking walks—or just getting up and about—has a significant impact on recovery, especially regarding fatigue.  So, as I&#8217;m feeling so much better (being able to eat tends to do that), my partner Greg and I decided to [...]]]></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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		<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>Plants are spiritually clean?</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/30/plants-are-spiritually-clean/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/30/plants-are-spiritually-clean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader writes: I have to tell you I disagree on your statement that &#8220;only plants are spiritually clean&#8221; on killing others to survive. Plants are as vicious as any other living organism. There are plants that release herbicides through their roots to kill or stun the competition. See examples that I found on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Katharine Hepburn</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/29/being-katharine-hepburn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[materialism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Maher]]></category>
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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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		<title>Feeling better</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/24/feeling-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last couple of days have been rough, and I couldn&#8217;t post.  But now it seems like the Flagyl is finally suppressing the Clostridium difficile infection.  These bacteria—like so many other organisms—can shut down most of their metabolic activity when environmental conditions are unfavorable, and while in this state, they are essentially impervious to antibiotics. [...]]]></description>
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