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5·8 hours agoI am just a bundle of recessive genes… Extra ribs, extra vertebrae, spinal stenosis, spina bifida occulta… Fun times!
3 congenital defects in the heart. 1 bypassed, 1 stented, one… lurking. I’m told it’s in a super complex place and would be more dangerous to try to fix. OTOH my heart is trying to grow a natural bypass around it so I got that going for me!
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Blogs, including Substack, are not allowed.
Blogs, including Substack, are not allowed.
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Yeah, I tell this story because going from 0 to stage 2 in 6 months is terrifying.
Thanks!
Just coming back now after my stage 2 surgery…
Here’s the thing, my symptoms didn’t even seem to be colon or cancer related. I was having fatigue, out of breath, tired all the time.
Not unusual for a dude with 2 heart attacks and congestive heart failure, but the blood work was showing anemia, low red blood cell count, low hemoglobin, small red blood cells.
Something was chewing up the blood, but it wasn’t clear what.
Enter the colonoscopy/endoscopy… 17 polyps, 2 of which unusually large (20mm and 30mm). But NOT cancerous. Not even pre-cancer.
Rule of thumb is anything more than 5 or bigger than 5mm, you get re-checked 6 months later.
6 months later… 6 new polyps, and a 20mm monster that was full blown invasive stage 2 cancer.
Went under the knife 2/19, they pulled my sigmoid colon and all the related lymph nodes. If the cancer got into the lymph system, that’s stage 3 and cause for chemo.
Well, they got it all! No stage 3! But I’ve kinda been rolling around in bed ever since. 2 more weeks of recovery.
Mel Brooks called it 45 years ago…
Mel Brooks called it 45 years ago…
5·22 hours agoActually the official name with a fun pronunciation:
Champoeg State Park.
Champoeg - Sham-pooie.
https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=79
25·1 day agoIf you’re buying any Apple product on specs, it’s not for you. 😉
As someone who had an iPod Touch and a Gen 1 iPad ganked by OS updates, I have serious doubts about that.
$599 here, but I also live in a state with no sales tax.
But that’s the 256GB version. 512 is $699.
Of course I have 24TB free on my NAS soooo…
Still not spending $600 on an Apple branded Chromebook.
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-neo/indigo-256gb
13-inch MacBook Neo in Indigo
A18 Pro, 6-core CPU, 5-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine
Apple Intelligence
8GB unified memory
256GB SSD storage
U.S. English Magic Keyboard with Lock Key
20W USB‑C Power Adapter
Two USB-C ports, 3.5 mm headphone jack
Support for one external displayOR… OOOOOOR…
$330:
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/dell-dc15255-laptop/usedc15255hbtshqzk
Yeah, yeah, fanboys are going to go “A18 Pro” vs “AMD Ryzen™ 3 7320U with Radeon™ 610M”
But on the other hand, 15.6" display vs. 13", 120hz vs 60hz, 512gb storage standard vs 256. 65w charger vs. 20w.
Goose it to the AMD Ryzen™ 5 7520U with Radeon™ 610M and it’s still $570.
Not saying you’re wrong, but we need a better source than antiwar.com.