From a conversation I had at work today.

[gridlore]

All of you probably know I'm a cancer survivor. I was amazed to find out how little most people know about this family of diseases and the effects on both patients and those around them.

So, ask me anything. Seriously. Medical, emotional, nasty details about diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, recovery.. whatever. I'll answer as completely and accurately as possible.

For the record I had Stage IV-B Hodgkin's Disease. My early treatment and diagnosis is discussed in this article. (A few errors in the details, but it is amusing to see myself described as a "thin, pleasant, well-developed man."

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[fusijui.livejournal.com]

So, in that spirit of education, can you tell us what exactly Li meant by "well-developed", eh?

A slow-burning episode of recurrent malaria, in my case, got me that same 'hey, it must be AIDS!' diagnosis in the early '90s. Admittedly malaria isn't the first thing university health clinic nurses in Michigan are going to think of. But apparently they did it a lot, and someone brought a class-action suit against them and the corner-cutting commercial lab they were relying on, which was settled quietly, and I ended up getting a little money out of it!

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I'm really hoping he was refering to my having the usual compliment of limbs, organs, etc, and being in fairly good shape.

But the man did see me naked on several occasions...