Colin Autry, who is undergoing months of chemo for leukemia in isolation, uses the wireless Internet at Kaiser Permanente's Roseville hospital as his mother, Pushpa Autry, waits nearby.Colin Autry, a 17-year-old cancer patient from Elk Grove, likened it to a life of solitary confinement, cocooned in a hospital room and cut off from the usual life of a high school senior – his cell phone and television screen the only connections to friends and the outside world. "When they told me I was going to be in an isolation room for six to eight months, that scared me pretty good," said Autry, who began his long hospital stay in October at Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center. But earlier this month, Kaiser ushered in the digital age for patients at its Roseville campus, allowing Autry to regain one important part of a typical teenager's life: wireless Internet. While his disease has wrought havoc with his life, Autry can again experience the joys of scrolling through Facebook updates. His fingers clack away for online … [Read more...]