On a happier note, I was walking in to clinic the other day and I ran into the mom of my friend from "A Real Goodbye". Despite all probability, he's actually doing really good. His MRD is 0 already, (that stands for something like mean residual disease, which is the residual cancer left in the body after chemo). Having responded early is a great sign, although he isn't out of the woods yet, it's looking a lot better than it did. I went by and saw him on my lunch break (he was receiving transfusions), he looks tired and the steroids have put on some weight in the last month, but all things considered he looks really good. I guess that's a lesson for me to stay positive. I always wondered how so many of the heme-onc docs can stay positive when they here prognosis like his and maybe it's because it's not up to the statisticians and docs who lives and dies, whether you believe it's a cosmic coin toss or a God up in the sky looking down, something else does.
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