Cy Ball — Music

Yesterday I returned from 5 days and nights in the Colorado mountains. I was fly fishing with some friends.  This spring trip is a tradition of ours that has lasted many years.  A little extra fun this year was that one man came who had never fly fished. He is our age and an avid [...]

Yesterday, April 17, I met my new oncologist.  She is very impressive and easy to deal with.  I am glad that I was assigned to her. After getting to know each other, she did a quick check up and discovered that I have atrial fibrillation (afib). She ordered an ECG and got the Cardio department [...]

This column appeared in The Denver Post today: “Reducing stress key part of cancer fight” by Drs. Oz and Roizen formerly called the “You Docs”. While their column explicitly talks about breast cancer studies, in my opinion the subject applies to all cancers including carcinoid or NETs. Drs. Oz and Roizen reference a cancer research [...]

I have spent the last couple of weeks auditioning a new Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). The Sony ACID Music Studio that I have been using was a great starter and is still very useful, but, I feel the need to move on to higher capabilities in my music software. Sony’s ACID Pro is good but [...]

According to Wikipedia, trip hop (or trip-hop) is a genre consisting of downtempo electronic music, originating in the early 1990s.  You might say it is a combination of hip hop and electronic music. I was unaware of trip hop until just a few years ago.  There was a champagne commercial which received a lot of [...]

In Denver today the weather started a bit foggy, then blossomed into a beautiful Colorado day.  I went for a 20 mile ride around Cherry Creek Reservoir. It was a beautiful, uplifting ride. No dizziness!  Only normal breathlessness when I pushed hard and I recovered quickly. So now I have to think that I was [...]

This article appeared on Wednesday in “OncologyStat.com”: Cancer Diagnosis Appears to Raise Suicide, Cardiovascular Risks. To keep abreast of the good (and bad) things being discovered for and about cancer, I subscribe to their email “Week in Review”. As patients, we are our own best advocates (or should be!), so we need to amass as [...]

The world has gone mobile.  I have just activated a feature of the WordPress blog software which will detect if you are visiting the site on a mobile device. It will show the mobile phone user a special view of the website that should be usable. Please leave comments if the site was working before [...]

I should have mentioned in the last post about fitness that when I took the twenty mile bike ride last Friday, I had several attacks of dizziness and also got severely winded. I am sure the dizziness is due to the prescription drugs and the Sandostatin injections. The losing of my wind may be just [...]

Like other cancer patients, carcinoids must deal with treatments that sap the vitality. During treatment you often feel sicker than you did before treatment and you can feel sick and fatigued long after treatment has ceased. In carcinoids, this is compounded by the fact that the average patient is diagnosed at the age of 64 [...]