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Before and After Photos

Now that I’m diagnosed, and now that I’ve put on a little weight, some friends are starting to shyly admit that, actually, I wasn’t looking all that good in the past few months. Well, I guess it’s more like “You’re looking much better!” This caught me by surprise the first time few times, as I hadn’t realized I was looking that bad before. But I guess you can see from these pictures that I had started to wither quite a bit. They call cancer a “wasting” disease.

2003 Dave 2005 Dave
The first picture is a healthy picture from awhile ago; the second, a not-so-healthy shot from June, 2005 – one month prior to diagnosis. I guess I enjoyed being Hollywood skinny, but not weak and pale and tired and cancerous.

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