Roadblock
After months of receiving free healthcare and just before I’m scheduled to start chemo, Argentine bureaucracy has kicked in. They cannot give me the chemo drugs for free unless I prove that I’m at...
View Article70/30
No one wants to talk about my mortality but it’s almost all I think about. Let’s face it, kids, the odds are that the metastases in my liver are going to kill me, probably some time in these first five...
View ArticleBBQ Town!
I had a great time last night with friends in Barrio Chino. We ate delicious, if not exactly entirely authentic, Korean cuisine at BBQ Town. Beatrice Murch expertly grilled the meat, and I pigged out...
View ArticleBoedo Flophouse, or What Poverty For A Cancer Patient Looks Like
An old friend commented on my last batch of photos that he didn’t realize that modern hospitals had stairwells. So I think there might be some confusion as to the state of the system I’m being treated...
View ArticleFreedom & Legacy
“This is a very sad story,” Adrianna, my new psychologist, said, after I’d outlined my journey from cancer diagnosis in December 2010 to the present day. I’d covered everything, I thought, including...
View Article12 cyclos
I felt like such a pussy, apprehensive and even fearful of this second cycle of chemo in this particular round of three. The first few days are really irritating — having to wear gloves inside, not...
View ArticleEnd Game
I’ve felt emptied of words — ones executed through my fingers, anyway. I’m still able to talk. Too much, probably. Just ask Joel. Or Kate. Whenever I tried to write, the spaces in my head reserved for...
View ArticleStalled again
The day started out well enough. although I only got around 4 hours sleep, I did get up in plenty of time, washed the dishes, finished packing and left kate’s flat. Having never taken the subte on...
View ArticleThis tunnel has no light
I was turned away from the surgical hospital for the third time this past Sunday. Or maybe it was the 4th. I don’t know anymore. I wasn’t the only one turned away but I was the only one with a friend...
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