The Oncology Underground
Hans CasteelsWelcome to Dispatch from the Oncology Underground. Prostate cancer, medical absurdity, and the slow-motion collapse of dignity, served with a side of dark humour and the occasional tofu recipe.
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Please Do Not Disturb. The Patient Is Living.
My next PSA blood test is due on November 15. At the moment, I am doing something rather irresponsible by the standards of a man with a cancer history: living without thinking about cancer very much. There are other things to occupy me. The...
Thou Shalt Take It. Until We Discover Thou Needn’t Have.
I am not a medical professional, but I do know how to research a subject, read the evidence and notice when a conclusion has wandered beyond what the study actually found. I also happen to inhabit the body receiving the treatment, which giv...
The Question Asked: “Why Do You Write”? I Write Because It Doesn’t Make Sense
No, I wasn’t always a writer of essays about cancer, getting older and the silliness of daily life. I used to write assessments for companies that had convinced themselves they were on the right track because a vice president had said so, a...
Nikki Rollick, I Am Sorry. The Incumbent Has Been Returned to His Seat. Now What?
Ontario held municipal elections yesterday, and here in Kitchener’s Ward 7, the incumbent, Bill Ioannidis, has been returned to city hall. Nikki Rollick, who ran against him, did not win. The city’s results are still unofficial, but the out...
What A Drag It Is To Get Old
I object to the amount of preparation now required to do something I do not particularly want to do in the first place. Going outside, for example. There was a time when the distance between deciding to leave the house and leaving it was oc...
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Survived cancer, marriage, and the healthcare system. Barely. Now I write about life’s side effects: insomnia, irony, and misplaced optimism. It’s not inspirational; it’s just what happens when sarcasm outlives shame.
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