I recently had a cancer scare (turned out to be benign) and have a friend currently battling. I don't know Mark but I know cancer sucks.
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I’ve been battling cancer last 2 years, but now only have a few days left
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Once you have kids (my apologies assuming you don't if you do, but perhaps other readers should be aware), you start to feel that every day - not only worrying how they'll be cared for materially, but also how they'd cope with the loss developmentally.
Spot on. This is pretty much the driving force in my life right now. I haven't been particularly kind to this body and the damage is starting to add up to the point that I wonder how much longer it will work and posts like these ram that home in ways that are impossible to ignore.
How haven’t you been kind to your body?
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#33Anyone else feeling anxious over their own mortality after reading this?
I actually envy people who have such a drive to live to the point of battling cancer for so long. If I got diagnosed I definitely would just give up.
Just as one datapoint, I had stage 4 cancer in my 40s. They described the chemo as one of the most intense courses they can give. Took seven months or so. It sucked but was very doable - you just get up, show up, feel sick, then do it again. Don’t think too hard about it. Obviously ymmv, but I would not advise thinking of heavy chemo as a guaranteed torture chamber.
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#34Once upon a time, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor that would kill me within a year. Eight years later and it hasn't yet. I'm sorry you had this happen- I hope your pain is gone soon, brother.
Fuck cancer.
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Spot on. This is pretty much the driving force in my life right now. I haven't been particularly kind to this body and the damage is starting to add up to the point that I wonder how much longer it will work and posts like these ram that home in ways that are impossible to ignore.
How haven’t you been kind to your body?
Bike accident (utterly self inflicted), 1000's of all-nighters, too little exercise (which I guess you can always point at, I bike a lot but that's not balanced exercise), diet, overstressed joints/muscles by doing too much physical work beyond my ability (usually when remodeling houses or constructing stuff). Coupled with a nice assortment of genetic heritage and some regular diseases (COVID, kidneys, gall bladder, bad lung) and it starts to really add up, the comparison between when I turned 50 and today is really harsh, it's not so much a gradual descent as it is a drop off a cliff.
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#36Once upon a time, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor that would kill me within a year. Eight years later and it hasn't yet. I'm sorry you had this happen- I hope your pain is gone soon, brother. Fuck cancer.
You are so lucky. I know quite a few cases where it was the opposite. "Oh, you've got years left". And then a funeral three months or so later. Cancer really sucks.
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#37Just today I learned that Nick Berry of https://datagenetics.com/ passed away recently. I guess that is slightly off topic but I wanted to share, I’ve been following his excellent blog for many years.
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#38Anyone else feeling anxious over their own mortality after reading this?
I always live and love like I’m dying so not really. My girlfriend recently asked me what I dream about and I replied honestly saying “I don’t dream, I live my dreams.” Then again, I am in the line of work best described as willingly agreeing to put an airplane together as I fall out of the sky. Not a whole lot of downtime in my days.
If this is inappropriate I apologize
Whet line of work are you in exactly, if you don’t mind sharing?
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#39Really puts “I’m leaving twitter” and 7 day suspensions into perspective.
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#40Once upon a time, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor that would kill me within a year. Eight years later and it hasn't yet. I'm sorry you had this happen- I hope your pain is gone soon, brother. Fuck cancer.
You are so lucky. I know quite a few cases where it was the opposite. "Oh, you've got years left". And then a funeral three months or so later. Cancer really sucks.
There are two types of cancer. One that you will die with, the other you will die from. Unfortunately you never know which is which until it is too late. I hope that some immune treatments will be approved soon. Seem to be promising