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	<title>I'm Not Dead Yet (I.N.D.Y.)</title>
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	<description>I have Pancreas Cancer, but I'm not Dead Yet!</description>
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		<title>Realizations&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past week, I have had a couple of realizations that sort of took me by surprise.  The larger of the two is that at the end of this month, I will have been a full year since I stopped active treatment of my cancer.  For whatever reason, I have always just thought of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MB Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, MaryBeth has successfully completed both of her procedures.  I spent some time with her in between her first and second procedure and she was enjoying her medications quite nicely.  When she was moved up to Day Surgery for the 2nd of her procedures, her nurse asked her how she was feeling.  She said she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merlehamburger.net/2010/03/mb-update/</link>
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		<title>A sure sign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I indicated yesterday, MaryBeth is at Gwinnett Medical Center today for a couple of minor procedures.  This is the same medical center, though, that I came to (in 2008) when I was having my ERCP procedures (prior to my diagnosis with pancreas cancer).  In total, I had 6 ERCP procedures, most of which were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merlehamburger.net/2010/03/a-sure-sign/</link>
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		<title>Switcheroo&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know, by and large, the medical concerns at Casa Hamburger have focused primarily on me for the last two years (c.f., my daughter&#8217;s surgery to have tubes put in and my older son&#8217;s ongoing issues with is autism).  MaryBeth (MB), apparently, felt jealous of all the medical attention I was getting and has decided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merlehamburger.net/2010/03/switcheroo/</link>
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		<title>Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is my birthday.  Even as I sit here typing this, I have to admit that 22 months ago, I would not have guessed that I would be alive today.   Each day, there is a part of me that wonders if, in fact, I *am* going to be the 1 in 5 that beats this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merlehamburger.net/2010/02/birthday/</link>
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		<title>If it&#8217;s not one thing&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know, the life of a cancer patient is often, out of necessity, one involving multiple, repeated visits to doctors, clinics, and/or hospitals.   As I have documented here, though, I had moved to a place in which I was not going to the doctor nearly as frequently (and I was loving it).  Of course, having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merlehamburger.net/2010/02/if-its-not-one-thing/</link>
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		<title>Doing the Beaver dance&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I got some bad news; a member of my Wood Badge patrol (we were the Beaver patrol) from two years ago, had been killed a week ago.  Richard Schoek (there was an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution if you are interested in more information).  Yesterday, I joined his family and friends and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merlehamburger.net/2010/02/doing-the-beaver-dance/</link>
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		<title>Snow! Snow! Everywhere&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, I find myself having not blogged sufficiently.   When I was first diagnosed, blogging was therapeutic &#8212; allowing me to express (in writing) thoughts and feelings that I was having difficulty expressing verbally.  As I continue to successfully battle pancreatic cancer, though, this blog has become less about the cancer and more about my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merlehamburger.net/2010/02/snow-snow-everywhere/</link>
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		<title>It was a dark and stormy night&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My family and I traveled to South Jersey to gather with my sibilings and their families to celebrate the 46th anniversary of my mother&#8217;s 29th birthday.  (If you ask her, she&#8217;ll tell you that she is barely passed pubescence&#8230;yeah, whatever!)
We had grand plans.  This morning was supposed to start with a grand buffet of eggs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merlehamburger.net/2010/02/it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-night/</link>
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		<title>Happy February</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How is it that the month of January has already come and gone?  It seems like it was only yesterday that we were celebrating New Years with my mother.  I&#8217;m just saying!
You know, I seem to get on here every week and talk about how I feel fine and today is no different. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merlehamburger.net/2010/02/happy-february/</link>
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