![]() ![]() I am Asian, I lived in Singapore, and I am not crazy rich - but I certainly heard of enough people on that tiny island who are. Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian JetSet a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money between Overseas Chinese and Mainland Chinese and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich. Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should-and should not-marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. ![]() Georgetown has some promising clinical trials coming soon, and NIH isn't too much farther up Wisconsin Avenue.Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. And, just to be sure I don't get my hopes up about feeling A-OK after that zapping, the gods gave me some new pain overnight, the kind of pain you'd expect to feel in the liver region if you have a gigantic liver tumor.īut we're not giving up. It's still possible that this is a good old-fashioned stiff neck, but we'll get the radiation-oncology team to zap the new lesion ASAP rather than wait around for it to heal itself. I toss and turn every five to 10 seconds in bed even when I can choose any position and any combination of pillows I like, so a couple of hours frozen in somebody else's choice of position is no less than torture. By the way, I do not recommend being forced to lie still on a tiny pillow for two hours in an MRI machine when the problem in the first place is an inability to get comfortable in any position. The scan found one new lesion, high enough on the spine to be a prime suspect. We had expected to learn the verdict on the Philadelphia experiment during today's appointment at Penn Presbyterian, but the neck pain sent me to Sibley Memorial in Washington for a spine MRI the day before, and we got spoiled. My wife the Prophet of Doom suspected a new metastatic bone lesion from the start, and she was apparently right. At first I had no reason to believe it was due to anything other than bad posture as I watched the Holiday Bowl in bed the night before (my new fondness for football has to rank among the oddest symptoms of any ailment), but that kind of stiff neck usually goes away in three or four days. We could very well have been headed to Philadelphia with very high hopes.īut on Dec. If anything, the symptoms were backtracking and I felt pretty much the way I did in April and May, before my diagnosis. For about five minutes the day after Christmas, my most annoying recent symptom - a near-constant sensation of a full stomach - went away. The news wasn't as crushing as it might have been. So Jacqueline and I will stop trekking to Philadelphia and start looking for another trial. geriatric warts, though I prefer "barnacles."Īnd, unfortunately, my body continued to grow things during the clinical drug trial I've been on for the past eight weeks. Zamskaya told me a few years back, in a simpler time when my main health concerns were moles and freckles and seborrheic keratosis, a.k.a. ![]()
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