Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary

Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary

27 Years And Counting

I'm likely going to die of something else now.

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Matthew Zachary
May 19, 2023
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As my Father would say. it's a good day to wake up "above the grass."

Twenty-seven years ago today, one intrepid neurosurgeon and his supporting cast of cohorts spent eight hours resecting a golf ball-sized malignant tumor from my cerebellum during a radical craniotomy.

Despite an ensuing three months of Chernobyl-level radiation therapy, I consider 1/10 …

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