Or it’s the MCL!
Last April, I was finally able to convince my 85 year old aunt to come and live with us in California, after several years of trying without any success. She had been living all alone in Delray Beach, FL, and was not in the best of health. Her sister, who was also living there, had moved back to New York, near her kids about 3 years prior, due to poor health.
Sylvia did own her own condominium at Kings Point in Delray Beach, so we had to arrange for a realtor to sell it before we left. We managed to ship most of her belongings back to California, leaving all the furniture behind for whoever bought the condo, and giving everything else to charity. We left the condo in the hands of a realtor who sold it for $118,000 in July 2005.
I only bring up the price because, her next door neighbors just sold their condo last week for $20,000, and they were glad to get rid of it at that price. And that is not a typo! Her condo complex was hit very hard by hurricane Wilma in October 2005, leaving all the units that were in her building (consisting of 4 units) unliveable, to this day.
So am I psychic or what? Not convinced? How about this?
On March 29th, I posted to my personal blog my thoughts on fatigue, and two days later, 4/1/06, an April Fools joke surfaces on GoozNews and the Schwitzer Health News Blog about a new disease known as Motivational Deficiency Disorder (MoDeD). I did learn that it wasn’t an actual disease, but was part of a conference on disease mongering, designed to highlight
concern over the trend to corporate definitions of diseases, with a primary interest in making profits rather than a concern for the public health.
Still not convinced? Ok, I’ve got one more.
Today, just one day after posting to my weekly column at the Medical Blog Network, an article titled Is treating cancer always the best choice? there is a report on Sunday Morning (CBS 7 AM PDST), May 7th, about a woman who was diagnosed with NHL, and immediately started treatment on her doctors advice.
She died 3 months later, and the results of an autopsy revealed she didn’t have NHL after all, but a benign tumor of the thymus gland.
I couldn’t have asked for a better confirmation of my thoughts, had I made that story up myself.
I think I’m psychic! 
Be careful, Marc. I thought I was psychic but it turns out I was just psychotic! (Sorry, couldn’t resist) Anyway, sure glad your Aunt took your advice!
Yes, my darling cousin, you are definitely psycho. Whoops, I mean PSYCHIC! I always knew that but the scientist in you just wouldn’t accept it. Yayyyyy, Marc!