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ID Title / Author, Pub. Date / Excerpt
  19 Radiology Routine
 DougW 2009-10-14 08:26:10
 This is my week off work to rest up from having pneumonia and complete the medications I was given while in the hospital. I'm pretty much hanging aro ... etc.
  18 Post Hospital Stay
 DougW 2009-10-12 08:24:10
 After I got out of the Hospital late Saturday afternoon, I needed to get an appointment to see my PCP (Primary Care Physician). I needed to get a ref ... etc.
  17 First Ambulance Ride Part 2
 DougW 2009-10-06 09:03:10
 Like I said at the end of part 1, I'm in a patient recovery room and I'm feeling pretty good, best I've felt all day. My chest ache is all gone. A fl ... etc.
  16 My First Ambulance Ride
 DougW 2009-10-04 09:00:10
 I had my first radiation therapy session on Monday, September 21st followed by a trip to the Oncology department to get my infusion pump installed. I ... etc.
  15 Side Effects?
 DougW 2009-09-10 09:49:09
 Once I got my diagnosis I've tried to tune in to what my body is telling me. Every ache, twinge, pain, etc, etc, gets scrutinized. Is that the tumor ... etc.
  14 Body Mapping for Radiation
 DougW 2009-09-10 08:33:09
 The title might be a little confusing. When you have radiation therapy, at least for my type of cancer, you undergo another CT scan without imaging e ... etc.
  13 EUS – Endoscopic Ultra Sound
 DougW 2009-09-10 05:19:09
 If you have been following the chain of my blog, then you know I have cancer and that whether I have Chemotherapy & radiation therapy first or sur ... etc.
  12 Keep Me In the Loop
 DougW 2009-08-29 09:17:09
 I've been surprised that all the medical people with whom I've come in contact with have been great, positive, and very supportive of me with my affli ... etc.
  11 How are you Holding Up?
 DougW 2009-08-21 02:09:09
 When I first got my diagnosis, I wanted to keep the information private. After a couple of days I knew it was going to be impossible to keep this inf ... etc.
  10 CT Scan & My Surgeon
 DougW 2009-08-20 12:50:09
 Around the 10th of August I went in for my CT Scan. This is one of those computerized imaging Xray systems that take a cross sectional image of your ... etc.
  9 Cancer Comes to Bothell
 DougW 2009-08-05 06:57:12
 We knew it would take a couple of days to get the results back from the biopsis. The day after the Colonoscopy I was still partially under the influ ... etc.
  8 Colonscopy Day
 DougW 2009-08-01 11:11:09
 It is now the morning of my procedure. Anne Mary is my wife, co-pilot, and guardian for the day. In the colonoscopy instructions it tells you that y ... etc.
  7 Colyte is not my friend!
 DougW 2009-08-01 09:33:09
 A week before my scheduled colonoscopy I got the documentation outlining my dos and don't for the next week. What foods I could and couldn't eat. Wh ... etc.
  6 Colonscopy Needed
 DougW 2009-08-01 08:07:09
 When an adult reaches the age of 50 your family doctor or primary care physician will start nagging you to get either a sigmoidoscopy or a colonoscopy ... etc.
  5 MythTV
 DougW 2009-06-27 09:13:49
 MythTV is a personal video recorder application, a combination of software and hardware. Tivo is probably the best known PVR available commercially. T ... etc.
  4 Open Source
 DougW 2009-06-15 18:23:53
 I got my introduction to Open Source Software when I lost my job as a "Domino web developer/eCommerce specialist" during the "Dot Com" Meltdown" in 19 ... etc.
  3 Linux & Ubuntu
 DougW 2009-05-25 17:05:43
 I've been working with Linux for nine years now and I love it! On my internal network I have one machine that runs Windows XP and the other four machi ... etc.