Our family of four has been hit by a really egregious number of medical panics: kidney disease, Crohn's Disease, possible cancer, and so on, and slowly we're learning how to understand these things on our own terms. "On our own terms" is kind of unique for us: my wife is a theoretical physicist, and I'm a programmer-turned-technical translator. We exemplify the engineering mindset, and we don't interact well with the medical establishment.
This is not to say we particularly care for woo-woo alternative medicine or "conspiracy-theory medicine" - but we do believe very fervently in dietary approaches, looking for root causes in our environment and lifestyle, and above all, preserving quality of life in all things. Living with your body means you have to treat it right, and sometimes you don't realize that until things are really seriously wrong. That doesn't mean you have to - or even should - delegate the decisionmaking to your doctor. Everything you do is your decision, although you can expect a great deal of friction if you take that attitude.
I don't expect to devote a lot of time to this blog in the foreseeable future, but when we have a crisis, I end up doing a lot of research that tends to get lost. For now, this blog will be my effort to keep that loss to a minimum.
The current crisis: endometrial hyperplasia and the possibility of endometrial carcinoma, patient aged 45.
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