Medical Update

I was driving over to Eddy’s today for a game of tennis. I had just been reading my friend Oliver Sacks’ wonderfully revealing Letters (2024) and had reached nearly the end when cancer had invaded his body. It began as a small melanoma in his right eye, depriving him of some vision in that eye. It was treated with radiation and had responded, but it proved “persistent” and needed extra doses. Then he discovered that it had spread to his liver and would be terminal. Soon, it was. Of course, I couldn’t help thinking of the melanoma in my right ear, which had spread to my neck and then to my lungs—for which I had received the standard treatments. As I drove, on a fine Miami day, I received a phone call from my oncologist’s office from his nurse, Yvonne, telling me that the doctor had reviewed my latest CT scan and that there was no evidence of melanoma in my upper body. This means, pretty much, that I am now cancer-free. I enjoyed a game of tennis.

Mark L says:

January 22, 2025 at 7:42 am

Totally fantastic news. So happy for you, some good news to counter Jan the 20th

All the best

Colin McGinn says:
January 22, 2025 at 3:38 pm

I shudder to think what must be the state of mind of my most rabid cancellers and critics (and ex-friends).