Health Eugene Fischer | 03 Apr 2009
I’ve been waiting for a fourth of a year to be able to take this picture: At long last, I have some medication that has a chance of being effective. As I alluded to in my silliness yesterday, Humira is an injectable antibody for a cytokine called tumor necrosis factor alpha. TNF-alpha is used by [...]
Fiction &Health Eugene Fischer | 02 Apr 2009
The following is a classified communique, smuggled across the blood/brain barrier from counter-insurgency leaders in the cortex. ————— *URGENT MESSAGE FOR PARTISANS OF THE DEFENDERS OF THE DIGESTIVE TISSUES* It’s been a long battle. No one knows better than we do how entrenched and seemingly unstoppable are the rogue forces within the immune system that [...]
Health &Writing Eugene Fischer | 01 Apr 2009
Yesterday I had a tickle in my throat that metamorphosed in the night into something more akin to a forest fire. And I’m on day 2 of a weird, intermittent nose bleed. And as I mentioned a little while back, I’ve lately been suffering from an increase in the severity of my Crohn’s symptoms. But [...]
