Comments on: Now I Understand Where Red Sox Fans Come From! http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2005/12/30/87/ This blog has moved on to ScienceBlogs - come and check it out! Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:27:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: bronwen http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2005/12/30/87/#comment-1517 Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:51:17 +0000 http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2005/12/30/87/#comment-1517 My aunt has had schizophrenia since her 20s (she's now in her 80s) - and my grandad fought tooth and nail against her being given a lobotomy. He was under conserable pressure from the medical community at the time. Good old Grandad. My aunt has had schizophrenia since her 20s (she’s now in her 80s) - and my grandad fought tooth and nail against her being given a lobotomy. He was under conserable pressure from the medical community at the time. Good old Grandad.

]]> by: Joan http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2005/12/30/87/#comment-1514 Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:45:43 +0000 http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2005/12/30/87/#comment-1514 You know it's <em>possible</em> to be a Red Sox fan without having a lobotomy... it's more or less an accident of birth. How can you blame a child for the parents' choice of home town? As for the persistance of Red Sox support... old habits die hard. I haven't had chemo but the radiation and surgical treatments I've had have some similar negative side effects. Nothing devastating, just annoying things, and I'm grateful my life is more or less normal now. I'm not sure I'd give up something like my personality (such as it is), but sacrificing my salivary glands seems like it was a pretty fair trade. You know it’s possible to be a Red Sox fan without having a lobotomy… it’s more or less an accident of birth. How can you blame a child for the parents’ choice of home town? As for the persistance of Red Sox support… old habits die hard.

I haven’t had chemo but the radiation and surgical treatments I’ve had have some similar negative side effects. Nothing devastating, just annoying things, and I’m grateful my life is more or less normal now. I’m not sure I’d give up something like my personality (such as it is), but sacrificing my salivary glands seems like it was a pretty fair trade.

]]> by: Minerva http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2005/12/30/87/#comment-1513 Sat, 31 Dec 2005 03:48:33 +0000 http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2005/12/30/87/#comment-1513 That is the hardest thing about chemo - that it may or may not work whilst at the same time it completely requires that one puts one's life on hold. Yes I do know how lucky I am that my cancer is treatable but does that mean that I should necessarily expect my life to go on hold? Am I being unreasonable by having that expectation? And I am sorry but I don't know HOW I got on to that - blame it either on the chemo or the frontal ice pick lobotomy that I have clearly had at some point in my life... Happy New Year, Minerva That is the hardest thing about chemo - that it may or may not work whilst at the same time it completely requires that one puts one’s life on hold. Yes I do know how lucky I am that my cancer is treatable but does that mean that I should necessarily expect my life to go on hold? Am I being unreasonable by having that expectation?

And I am sorry but I don’t know HOW I got on to that - blame it either on the chemo or the frontal ice pick lobotomy that I have clearly had at some point in my life…

Happy New Year,

Minerva

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