One little good thing about a long-time friend of my family (I remember the couple from when I was a child; the woman worked in the same office as my dad did for years). The man - his name is Bob - had gone in for shoulder surgery but in the pre-surgical testing they discovered he had leukemia.
He went through a series of treatments, at a couple points it looked bad, but, pending the results of one last blood test, the doctors have pronounced him "technically in remission." (No word on whether he's going to have the shoulder surgery).
Stuff like this makes me want to say to the people I know (and the loved-ones of people I know) who are fighting cancer: go, go, go, and kick cancer's butt like it deserves.
(Some of the treatments he used were fairly new ones, using his own bone marrow cells, and apparently they worked well in his case).
Also a bunch of people I know who have had some health concerns lately are doing much better. Maybe this is the beginning of an upswing, where people I care about don't get hit with bad medical news for a while?
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