A Topic Change

I decided today to change my research topic. I had initially planned to research a specific facet of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: the onset of the disease. I wanted to compare the way Hodgkin’s takes over the body to a machine, but as I began my research, I realized such a feat would be much more difficult than I anticipated. Hodgkin’s lymphoma affects people in different ways, not to mention I was struggling to relate the disease to a machine. I was worried my paper would lack the machine focus if I wrote about lymphoma, so I decided to brainstorm for topics again.

I considered hemochromatosis, Cushing’s Disease, and Celiac Disease, but eventually decided upon osteoporosis. I plan to focus on the treatment of osteoporosis—how drugs can “rebuild” bone—and found this focus much more adaptable to the machine comparison than Hodgkin’s. I then found six journal articles (this process took a very long time) and stowed them away. I plan to start reading everything tomorrow.