Epistemographer

A few weeks ago, I found out that my cousin Josh had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. He had a seizure one day at dinner and was rushed to a hospital, where the ER docs found nothing visibly wrong. A followup visit with his primary care physician led to an MRI, however, which turned up a 2 cm mass on the left side of his brain.

A little backstory: Josh is a fixture at my parents’ annual Passover Seders, and he’s infamous for a particular seder several years back when he knocked back too much wine and picked up my parents’ camcorder – the video he shot (among with his running commentary) is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Thus, it comes as no suprise that he’s decided to tackle this challenge with a sense of humor, naming the tumor “Earl” and starting up a Brain Blog to keep friends and family up to date on events. He’s a hell of a guy, and this is now one of the first blogs I check when I start up my computer in the morning…

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