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		<title>Onconversations XXXIII</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(On a bench in Central Park on a beautiful May day.) OLD FRIEND:  You look tired. ME: You know, I&#8217;ve always thought that that is one of the worst things you can say to someone. FRIEND: I meant to be sympathetic. ME: All it does is make a vain person like me feel bad. FRIEND: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Onconversations XXXII</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Since I started these Onconversations, about a year ago&#8211;with the recurrence of malignant nodules in what remained of my left lung after a lobectomy in 2008 for a 2.5 cm. adenocarcinoma&#8211;this site has gotten as many as a hundred and as few as zero clicks a day, according to Google Analytics.  Even a hundred is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2012/05/onconversations-xxxii/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XXXI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I talk to my main oncologist on the phone, after my radiation treatments are over and after he and I have exchanged emails about the follow-up CT scan three months later. [See ONCONVERSATIONS XXX]) ME: So I potentially have this job offer coming my way. Can you imagine&#8211;at seventy, cancerous, mildly diabetic, with no thyroid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2012/04/onconversations-xxxi/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XXX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(The following is a slightly redacted email exchange between me and my thoracic oncologist.) ME: As I wait for the results of the follow-up CT scan I just had (which Dr. _______ [the oncology radiologist] says will likely show not much change, but I&#8217;m not counting on that in any direction&#8211;same, better, or worse), I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Onconversations XXIX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(A spectacular spring day in a Riverside Park dog run, a cindery expanse where dogs are allowed off the leash and often stand around or sit around or lie around rather than run. Their owners stand around or sit around on benches and talk on their cell phones or talk to each other, almost always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2012/04/onconversations-xxix/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XXVIII-Part Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(My therapist/friend has prescribed Provigil for me. It&#8217;s a drug that is often used for narcolepsy and shift work&#8211;that is, basically, night-shift work&#8211;but also sometimes used for other situations where attention might flag or wander. Like, for most writers, writing, especially when they&#8217;re dealing with a medical issue like cancer, which according to the therapist/friend, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2012/03/onconversations-xxviii-part-two/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XXVIII–Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Having completed full courses of chemotherapy and radiation treatments for small mailgnant nodules in my left lung&#8211;the whole process took about eight months altogether&#8211;I&#8217;m having trouble concentrating on a book I&#8217;m supposed to be writing. I talk about this problem to  a therapist/friend.) ME: I&#8217;ve written forty-two thousand words out of about sixty thousand altogether, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2012/03/onconversations-xxviii-part-one/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XXVII-Part Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(After twenty minutes or so in the lounge-like waiting room, with its odd mixture of mainly sad denizens, I&#8217;m called in to see the young radiologist who has overseen the radiation treatments for the malignant nodules in my left lung.  He is smiling er, radiantly and shakes my hand with energy.) RADIOLOGIST: Congratulations! ME: I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2012/03/onconversations-xxvii-part-two/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XXVII-Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(After completion of two courses of radiation, I go to see the radiologist, for a routine follow-up appointment. He does this with all his patients four to six weeks after their treatments are over, he has told me&#8211;assuming, I assume, that they are still with us, ambulatory: follow-upable.  But before I go in to see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2012/02/onconversations-xxvii-part-one/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XXVI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I go for a full checkup to my regular internist&#8211;the guy who almost a year ago told me he would be much more scared than I seemed to be about a recurrence of cancer. I think that the three or four oncologists in my life are not paying enough attention to the Whole Man, and [...]]]></description>
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