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		<title>Poked and Prodded Blog &#187; Cancer Diary</title>
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		<title>Spring Brings New Feelings of Life, Especially to a Cancer Patient</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/04/29/spring-brings-n/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Carpenter</dc:creator>
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It was a great day.
I woke up and my body didn&#8217;t ache from head to toe. I don&#8217;t really know why, I just felt better. Yes, I was stiff. Yes, I was sore. But when I planted my feet on the floor, the pain didn&#8217;t travel up my legs and pinch my lower back. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=233&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Keep From Pulling Your Hair Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Carpenter</dc:creator>
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I actually thought I was going to be spared the whole hair-loss thing when, after two weeks of my first chemo treatment, my full, thick head of jet-black hair (with a sprinkling of gray) was intact. Even when I found hair in hats, shower drains, and bed sheets, the loss seemed modest.
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		<title>Chemotherapy Has Turned Me Into a Bloodhound</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Carpenter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When one of the doctors offhandedly mentioned that my sense of taste or smell could be affected by the high-dose chemotherapy treatments I was getting in my battle against multiple myeloma, I didn&#8217;t pay much attention. Not until I found I could detect the slightest whiff of anything from 20 feet. Not until anything I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=208&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Immune System Confronts a Virus</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/04/01/my-immune-syste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Carpenter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer Diary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I reached Day 21 of my stem cell transplant, my recovery hit a very scary wall. I woke up with a fever of 102 and could barely lift my head off my pillow. I felt that little tingle in the back of my throat and knew right away what it was: the common cold.
For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=198&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Stem-Cell Transplant Was a Success and I’m Out of the Hospital</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/03/17/my-stem-cell-tr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Carpenter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer Diary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow tranplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer remission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multiple myeloma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears right now that I have successfully beaten cancer and can look forward to a lengthy remission. My eyes well up as I write this because it has been such a battle. How long will the remission last? It looks like at least three years, and the upper end has no ceiling. There are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=179&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report From the Cancer-Treatment Trenches: It&#8217;s Bad Out Here!</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/03/04/report-from-the/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Carpenter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chemotherapy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[medical marijuana in a pill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white blood cell counts]]></category>

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In late February, after an emergency admission to a New York City hospital for neutropenic fever—fever associated with low white blood cell counts in many cancer patients—Jason prepared for the harvesting of his stem cells. This phase of treatment for multiple myeloma involves harvesting stem cells, then blasting the patient with high-dose chemotherapy to kill [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=166&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Am I Fit Enough for a Stem Cell Transplant?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/02/04/am-i-fit-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Carpenter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[autologous stem cell transplant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chemotherapy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In anticipation of the looming autologous stem cell transplant for my multiple myeloma, a lot of planning and testing is happening—a kind of countdown to the big launch. On the personal front I&#8217;ve made a visitor calendar so friends and family can sign up to take turns looking after me during the process. I&#8217;ve also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=132&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is My Cancer in Remission or Not?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/01/21/is-my-cancer-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Carpenter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago I got the good news from my oncologist: The five cycles of cancer treatment I have undergone have pushed me into complete remission. That made me feel great until my next day with the transplant doctor whose care I will be under for the next few months, including my autologous stem cell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=107&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now They Say I May Become Impotent</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/01/16/now-theyre-sayi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Carpenter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It never occurred to me that getting bone marrow cancer would lead to me holding a little Dixie cup while watching XXX videos in a hospital, but that&#8217;s exactly where I&#8217;m going to be in a few weeks.
It&#8217;s not easy to talk about as a guy who fancies himself quite the alpha male. Anyway, I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=100&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Unexpected Side Effect of Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Carpenter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the better part of my 34 years on Earth, I’ve been that guy with the messy desk and disorganized closet, who never used a planner, who crammed his brain with stuff he couldn’t possibly remember. 
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