Category Archives: cancer
Cancerland at Relay for Life in Second Life
I suspect this is the last iteration of Cancerland, since I don’t think the land its sitting on will be around too much longer. So I really went to town with it. Building it and sharing it has been a great experience.
No Antidepressants Day 3
Every once in a while this year I have that moment where I remember where I was and what I was doing this time last year. 100% of the time those moments remind me how lucky I am, how grateful I am, and how much I love all the people around me, and how grateful [...]
Cancerland Video, version two
Everyone I know has already seen the first video, but after watching it myself a few times, I realized what pieces were missing from the build itself. To start: why didn’t I put labels on the spaces? I had names for the pieces, like the hall of terror and the scar display room, so why [...]
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Steve Jobs’ Stanford address from 2005:
Cancerland
I finally managed to get a video of Cancerland. This way you can get a sense of how the audio fits in with the visual. The text remains a mystery in this format, unfortunately. I’ll have to find some other way to get that information across. The narrative is really held together by the text.
An Open Letter
An open letter to myself, a year ago today.
Scar update
Someone asked, so I took a picture of my thyroidectomy scar today. For reference, here’s a short history of my scar:
one week post surgery (mid-February, 2008)
two weeks post surgery (end of February, 2008)
about four weeks post surgery (early March, 2008)
about a week post radiation (mid-March, 2008)
today
For those who are curious, and for those facing this [...]
When do you become a Survivor?
In the SL cancer survivors group meeting today, a friend raised the question of the definition of the term “survivor”. For most of us, we understood it as being a person who has gone into remission. But that’s not the definition they use. (And by “they” I think I mean the American Cancer Society.) To [...]
Made the Front Page!
Check it out! Hot off the presses: the latest edition of the Metaverse Messenger, with Dulcie Mills and Verde Otaared’s article, “Cancerland offers a close look at disease”, profiling my build in Second Life. I kind of sound like an airhead, since I couldn’t really claim to have built it for the good of cancer [...]
How to Dehumanize a Person in One Easy Step
Today on the train downtown, I got to thinking about my sick leave. Before I had to take it, there was a big part of me that dreaded it, since I knew I would be very sick, but there was this other part of me, a smaller, quieter part, that longed for it. I just [...]
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