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	<title>Apoica &#187; illness journaling</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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		<category><![CDATA[illness journaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemotherapy]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illness journaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceuticals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reader email]]></category>

		<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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[illness journaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[b-cell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blood transfusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C. difficile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graft Versus Host Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graft Versus Lymphoma effect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immune system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lymphoma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neuropathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red blood cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stem cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[t-cell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[viral infection]]></category>

		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illness journaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social contract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reader email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stem cells]]></category>

		<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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		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alcott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Transcendentalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hawthorne]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walden Pond]]></category>

		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[illness journaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cytotoxic T-cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dictyostelium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engraftment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immune system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Killer cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stem cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[t-cell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transplant]]></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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[viral infection]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[advocacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blood transfusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C. difficile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engraftment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fatigue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graft Versus Host Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stem cells]]></category>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[illness journaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graft Versus Host Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Host Versus Graft Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immune system]]></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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white blood cells]]></category>

		<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>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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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illness journaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fatigue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graft Versus Host Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neuropathy]]></category>

		<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>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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		<category><![CDATA["eastern" "medicine"]]></category>
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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>Brains, brains, brains . . .</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/28/brains-brains-brains/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/28/brains-brains-brains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[illness journaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neuropathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceuticals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just started a new drug for the peripheral neuropathy.  The drug turns me into a complete zombie: I&#8217;m unable to stand, extremely sleepy, hallucinating, and unable to focus my eyes.  These symptoms are supposed to pass in a couple of days, but the central nervous system impact of this drug is much, much greater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very tired, and sad</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/27/very-tired-and-sad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/27/very-tired-and-sad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apoica.com/?p=112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Neuropathy, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, narcotics, dehydration, extreme fatigue, and crushing sadness—these are the experiences I&#8217;ve been enjoying for the last week. This has been a hard week—the last few days especially so.  With the ongoing C. difficile infection (which is perhaps fully suppressed now . . . maybe), I&#8217;ve been eating nothing but yogurt [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/24/feeling-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[C. difficile]]></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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		<title>Some history, and another tough day</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/20/some-history-and-another-tough-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[engraftment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mention in the About page, this blog is not going to be a diary of pain and suffering. Nor will it be a record of hopeful triumph, courage, bravery, and . . . vomit (well, it probably will be about vomit from time to time. I certainly have been doing enough of that). [...]]]></description>
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