I never forget my oncology appointments, for two reasons. One, I've become friends with all of my oncos over the years. Two, I am utterly terrified of leukemia sneaking up on me again. I take my meds religiously, show up on time for every appointment with my laptop, and happily work from the waiting room between the blood draw and the meeting with my doctor to go over results. I even look forward to bone marrow biopsies. I've had over 50.
But not today. Today I forgot. It didn't even cross my mind until my onco's office staff called. When I realized what had happened I started smiling, cried a few happy tears, and called my wife to share the news.
Me: "Hey babe! Guess what!" Becky: "Ok, what happened?" Me: "I forgot I had an oncology appointment this morning. I can't believe it. Things have been good enough for long enough that I didn't even think about it coming up."
That is not a thought I could have had at any point in the ten-plus years since I got sick. It felt great.
So let's celebrate. I'm starting a project, and I'm going to write a post about every step of it. I'm going to use Claude to collect every lab report, blood value, and any other medical record I can get my hands on. With any luck I can even snag some scan images of the masses that developed in my brain. I've never gotten to see those.
I'll plan out the route with Claude and share the discussion. We'll cover the plan we picked and why we picked it. Then we'll dig into each piece as we go. Afterward we'll figure out a place to store the data, build some UI around it, and work it into my about page, all using AI tooling.
I expect direct access to the MyChart APIs to be more trouble than it's worth, but scraping my own medical data off the three or four sites I have completely legitimate access to sounds like fun too.
Oh, and I plan to ship Dockerizit in the next few days: my AI-empowered Docker frontend that runs about 100x faster than Docker Desktop.
See you soon!