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Rants, Rates, Slags, Slates. Manic-depressive posts from Red Wright-Hand. Because there are thousands of worthless blogs out there and who am I not to add to their number?
Total US troop deaths in Iraq to date (09/01/07) since 03/20/03: 3739
From 05/02/03 through 06/28/04: 718 Myeloma (etc.) Blogs
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Saturday, September 01, 2007
"The Army has confirmed that "several" of the 10 Schofield Barracks soldiers who died in an Aug. 22 helicopter crash in northern Iraq were witnesses in a murder case Sunday, August 12, 2007
"Nothing! Nothing!" Woody Allen pays obnoxiously awkward, self-absorbed and name-dropping tribute to Ingmar Bergman in today's New York Times. I cannot resist quoting from this self-contradictory paragraph: "[C]ertainly Bergman’s movies will live on and will be viewed at museums and on "ANNA....!": Martin Scorsese pays classy tribute to Michaelangelo Antonioni, and L'Avventura in particular, in today's New York Times. GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD, FEELING NOT TOO BAD, ACTUALLY: The Myeloma Mobile, inspired creation of the Tuohy family (whose pater Michael remains in healthy remission, seven years after being diagnosed with MM at age 36), stopped in Philadelphia yesterday on its coast-to-coast awareness-raising tour. There was a good turn-out, including several folks from the Philadelphia Multiple Myeloma Networking Group, of which I am a member. You can go straight to the Tuohy's blog here.
Dr. Edward A. Stadtmauer, Abramson Cancer Center, HUP (this guy has seen me hoinking my guts out, basically) Tuesday, July 31, 2007
THE ODDS: There remains some question as to whether Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare actually died on the same day, but apparently it was close enough for literary work. But what was the likelihood that two other elder masters, Ingmar Bergman and Michaelangelo Antonioni, of another art form (guess which one) would also die on the same day? Too terrible a reminder of a vanished era (1955-1975?) when movies were taken seriously as social commentary. Sorry, but Grindhouse and Knocked Up just don't count. Not Little Miss Sunshine, either. For now, a link to Jeffrey Wells' appreciation of Antonioni and especially L'Eclisse, one of the better love letters I've seen today. I had much the same reaction when I watched that film and L'Avventura last summer (neither for the first time): how genuinely ageless these movies are, how stunning to think that both were made nearly fifty years ago. The nerve it took to create movies like that then! And where is that nerve now? Friday, June 29, 2007
THE NINETIES CONTINUE WITH "POP. 98": From Marvin Kitman's review of Way Off the Road, by Bill Geist, in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, June 24, 2007. I've had the pleasure of stopping in, not to mention dining in, Rachel, NV.
92: That's how many hours it's been since I posted this:
Where's the hate? The screed? The lawyer's injunction yearning to be free? What do I have to do, salt this post with a load of keywords? Schlussel, wingnut, harpy, psychotic, Bush-lover, pro-war, sub-par movie critic...? I could go on. Dear Ms. Schlussel: if I don't respond to your e-mails immediately, it may mean that I am traveling and at some range from electronic communication. I thank you for your patience. Signed, The Maytag Repairman. Thursday, June 28, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
The greatest death-defying act in the history of the Internet continues! No, not my ongoing cancer remission...I mean something much more significant: the fact that my Debbie Schlussel picture (or is it her Debbie Schlussel picture? Ay, there's the rub) remains online after 24 hours, and I have yet to hear from a single attorney in any form, shape or way. How bizarre! How odd! How embarassing to have such a poorly-read blog! Perhaps if I post it again:
Monday, June 25, 2007
RINGING THE DINNER BELL: I am given to understand that a certain wingnut actually sues anyone who dares post her "official head shot" online without her express permission, even though, as has been clearly pointed out elsewhere, said shot appears on her website without any notification of proprietary copyright whatsoever. Anyway, in a truly pathetic attempt to gauge the reach of Red Right Blog, I hereby post the photo:
Come and get me, Debbie Schlussel. Redrightblog at hotmail.com Tuesday, June 12, 2007
DOLLFACE: Red Right Blog colleague (and occasional musical collaborator) Ted Adams has a current exhibition of his photography at the Photo 612 gallery in Haddon Heights, NJ. Sunday, June 10, 2007
It looks like the Red Right archives have finally migrated from Old Blogger to New Blogger, or any way I finally linked how to link to them successfully. You will find them in the drop-down menu to your left:
Saturday, April 28, 2007
BEYOND UPDATE: Well, it's only been ten months. However, I'm logging in to clear away the cobwebs here a bit. You know there's really no one reading your blog when you announce you've been diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer, and nobody (well, nobody you don't already know) e-mails you to say anything. There was also the undeniable fact that as I began my myeloma treatments, I realized I really didn't want to share this information with the general world. Even if I wasn't too tired to post regularly, I decided that even I would be bored with entry after entry along the lines of "I feel terrible today" or "I feel scared" or "I feel a little better today than yesterday." Who needs it? So for the past several months, whenever I felt like marking a milestone in my treatment, I simply and directly e-mailed the news to those friends and relations whom I felt were truly concerned. I didn't want my medical history online for general consumption, or, worse, for the provocation of boredom. All that being said, here's where I am since June of last year: My peripheral blood-stem-cell transplant (PBSCT), the thing that used to be called (because it was) a bone-marrow transplant, was a success, and I am now officially in remission, per my oncologist. Admitted to Hospital of University of Pennsylvania on June 20, discharged July 12. Of major interest was the bout of typhlitis I suffered for about a week after July 4, proving that if I hate my own guts, they hate me right back, but the good doctors and nurses got me through it, hallucinatory fevers and all. Then about three weeks of recuperation and pampering at my older sister's house, then back home and back to the office by early August (working part-time at first). Regular trips to the oncologist (weekly to begin with, but we're down to every 3 months now) were always encouraging, as blood and protein levels gradually leveled out and back to normal levels. By the very end of December last year, and my first post-transplant marrow biopsy, my onc checked the box on my file form that says "remission," (though I believe it gets post-dated to day of my transplant, so today I can say I've been in remission for the past 10 months). Found time in September to do a little fund-raising for the Leukemia & Lymphoma [and sort-of Myelmoma] Society; it's amazing how people shell out when they know you have (had?) cancer. And in the past several months have had opportunity to enjoy my renewed health. In December I traipsed around NYC like a visiting college student :  ...and the next month booked a long-desired Carribbean trip, destination: Anguilla, where I spent a week in late March. Perfect. The only real difficulty has been in attempting to adjust to the "normal routine" of the pre-myelomatic life, which, as I've been discussing with fellow cancer patients of whatever stripe, is not simple. Okay, that's the update. Hope no one's been terribly bored in the interim. |
