At The Hospital

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lots of bags funny mask. ha ha.

Two of the few photos anybody took of me while I was in the hospital. These would have been March, or maybe April. I had to look cool. Sunglasses. Leather jacket. Not sick. Definitely looking cooler, healthier, hipper than tired, dragging, sick. We will not photograph the latter.

On the left side of the photo with all of my various antibiotics (the larger yellow bag is actually food/nutrients, since I couldn't eat anything for awhile) you can see some adhesive tape strips attached to my chest. That's where my Hickman catheter ran into my body -- the main entry point, the highway, Route 66 for any chemicals or medicines that needed to get inside.

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A Few Notes

rkb in 1990
2010 marks my twentieth year in remission from AML. To celebrate, I will be training for and running two marathons with Team in Training: Twin Cities on October 3rd, and Dublin, Ireland on October 25th.

I'd originally started using this site to tell my story -- roughly eight months of treatment in 1990, as well as the impact leukemia had on me in the years that followed. Much of that story is still available through the "Table of Contents" below (or through the site archives).

But now I will also be writing about my training and fundraising goals, progress, as well as other thoughts, feelings, and experiences along the way for this milestone anniversary.

 - Robert K. Brown
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