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	<title>Lymphomartini</title>
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		<title>I&#8217;m so sorry to tell you&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom passed away just after 5:00 PM today. I still can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s come to this. About a week and a half ago, Tom started to get very sick again. His lungs started to get worse, and he got very delirious. We sang to him, held his hands, and assured him there was no evil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://health.tommusic.net/2011/04/im-so-sorry-to-tell-you/</link>
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		<title>Hunting and Pecking Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is going to take a long time to write, but that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s Tom at the keyboard again. Remember when you first learned to write your name, hands all-wobbly and un-sure? Yeah, It&#8217;s like that. I&#8217;m happy to to be able to report that the chemothererapy (hyper-CVAD) that we launched is having the kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://health.tommusic.net/2011/04/hunting-and-pecking-again/</link>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Keep a Good Man Down!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am happy to say Tom is doing wonderfully, dear friends. They were able to extubate (take him off the ventilator) a few days ago, and he&#8217;s been doing just fine with a little oxygen from a nasal cannula. He started speaking the moment they took the tube out: &#8220;We need to have a discussion. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://health.tommusic.net/2011/03/cant-keep-a-good-man-down/</link>
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		<title>Chemo begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello fans of Tom, Tom&#8217;s doctor and oncologist sat me down this morning and explained that they want to start chemo today. He cannot survive on his current trajectory much longer. His lungs have healed somewhat, but he still cannot breathe without some ventilator support. He is also not absorbing as many platelets from his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://health.tommusic.net/2011/03/chemo-begins/</link>
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		<title>What the Doctors Say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Jana, Tom&#8217;s wife. I am taking over Tom&#8217;s blog for the time being (better to ask forgiveness than permission, my friends say). We have lots of information to share; some may be a repeat for you, but hopefully more clear. The doctors sat down with the family yesterday and made sure we were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://health.tommusic.net/2011/03/what-the-doctors-say/</link>
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		<title>Shut the Door and Have a Seat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The news, friends, is not good. The biopsy from back on my birthday shows significant infiltration of the bone marrow by the more aggressive of the two lymphomas that I had before. This pretty solidly explains why my blood counts have been so low; there isn&#8217;t any room for the bone marrow stem cells to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://health.tommusic.net/2011/03/shut-the-door-and-have-a-seat/</link>
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		<title>Getting Back on the Medical Horse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a variety of physical complaints for a long time, most of which I&#8217;d mentally marked as long-term side effects of the chemo and radiation and transplant and so on. But recently I&#8217;ve started to have very little saliva most of the time. This had been accompanied by the also-not-mouthwatering red dots I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://health.tommusic.net/2011/03/getting-back-on-the-medical-horse/</link>
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		<title>Ignite Talk Video Now Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not a proper health update, but I wanted to share the video of my speech from Ignite Seattle 11 back in September. It was filmed, edited, and produced by professional-type people. And boy does it look good! If you&#8217;ve got a spare five minutes, I highly recommend it!]]></description>
		<link>http://health.tommusic.net/2011/01/ignite-talk-video-now-online/</link>
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		<title>That Was Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello Ignite Seattle folks (and other new readers)! If you&#8217;re here to read more about the roller-coaster ride that has been my fight with lymphoma during the last year, I recommend looking at the &#8220;Archives&#8221; section along the right side of the page. That gives you quick access to each month&#8217;s entries. Or, for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://health.tommusic.net/2010/09/that-was-fun/</link>
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		<title>We Didn&#8217;t Start the Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll have a proper update on the last few months coming soon (plenty to talk about), but I wanted to make special mention of an event tonight for those in the Seattle area. Ignite Seattle 11 is happening tonight, and yours truly will be among the speakers! The format is that each speaker has five [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://health.tommusic.net/2010/09/we-didnt-start-the-fire/</link>
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