Anchises - An Old Man's Journal

Robert Cooper (Anchises) died on October 19, 2012 at 8:25pm.  You may see his obituary on Legacy.com  (direct link).  As this blog is now fi...

It’s hard to believe that about a year ago, I was living a reasonably normal life, walking briskly each morning in Prospect Park...

Since losing 50 pounds in the late 1960s, I’ve been thin, but I didn’t realize that slimness had become an important part...

Last Friday, I met my medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering.  He gave me both good news – that Medicare has appr...

Perhaps a year ago, I wrote about an elderly man who was about to undergo a dangerous operation.  Before the operation, his daug...

“If your heart stops, do you want to be resuscitated, and if you can’t breathe on your own, do you want to be intubated (...

Down by the East River stands one of the world’s great medical establishments, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.  One ...