My Experience With Lymphoma

Steven Kelman, The Atlantic: Health
Sat, 01/23/2016 - 10:47am

My Experience With Lymphoma

hxdbzxy / Shutterstock Until the end of 2014 I thought that I was a healthy 66-year-old: normal blood pressure, not overweight, no prescription medications. I worked out at the gym regularly, and had missed hardly a day of work in over 35 years of teaching at Harvard. I loved my work and was obsessed, probably too obsessed, with it.

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