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Hacker News, thank you for all the links and all the great reading. Now I have to say goodbye. I’m with my wife Bess ( https://bessstillman.substack.com/ ) and my brother Sam, and crying, but it is okay. At the end of Lord of the Rings Gandalf says to the hobbits, "Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” And that is how I feel now. Ending prematurely hurts, but all things must end, a…
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He did? I'm surprised to find a quote I'm not familiar with. On what page of which edition did he say this?
Gandalf says this in the movies, not in the book. However the descriptive language is drawn from Frodo's dream in the barrow downs and his experience sailing into west at the end of LOTR. > And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.
I hope this is an appropriate place to ask. Say I am eating well, exercising consistently, getting enough sleep. For a male in his 40s, what are the best bang-for-the-buck ways to detect cancer before it becomes life-threatening?
Talk to your doctor, and ask to be screened for all common cancers. A colonoscopy is in your future (I just had one). Also ask for a Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test. Also look into the HPV vaccine.
Often I feel very at home here. A community which designed ethics into its very core.
What a weird time to come across this blog. I went to the dermatologist today for a biopsy. I’m gonna spend the next week obsessing and worrying about it until I get the results.
My partner died of an internal SCC in their early 40s during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, over a course of 9 months. After the tumor board of the only cancer treatment center both covered by our insurance and willing to take us on refused to pursue anything but standard ovarian chemotherapy (which didn't work at all on ovarian SCC, which we already knew). Because of travel restrictions and the total lack of vacci…
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Hacker News, thank you for all the links and all the great reading. Now I have to say goodbye. I’m with my wife Bess ( https://bessstillman.substack.com/ ) and my brother Sam, and crying, but it is okay. At the end of Lord of the Rings Gandalf says to the hobbits, "Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” And that is how I feel now. Ending prematurely hurts, but all things must end, a…