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New comment by borbulon in "The CEO Who Made a Fortune While His Hospital Chain Collapsed"

borbulon — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 11:13:18 +0000

Something is wrong with the whole system of how people are compensated for their work; a Starbucks employee shouldn’t have to rely upon the good graces of their customers (tips) to earn a living wage, either.

That being said, a heart surgeon has a very specific and wide-ranging set of knowledge and skills which not many people could have, not to mention the incredible amount of stress they’re under.

New comment by borbulon in "Starting Hospice"

borbulon — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 23:14:27 +0000

I’m sorry for both of you. I thank you for your words. As someone who’s right behind you in line, your words mean more to me (and hit harder, and cut deeper) than I expect they do for many.

Take my love with you both. See you on the other side.

New comment by borbulon in "Space is a latent sequence: A theory of the hippocampus"

borbulon — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 00:44:07 +0000

Thank you for this, it’s stirred up a considerable amount of thought in me, but I would also say that my immediate reaction is that

> its own pre-action thoughts and the following action

Can also be a sort of spatial processing

New comment by borbulon in "Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever"

borbulon — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:54:04 +0000

I didn't have any symptoms until it was stage 4. I developed a kind of crackling in my right lung when I breathed, so I got it checked out.

New comment by borbulon in "Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever"

borbulon — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:52:18 +0000

No problem, I don't mind talking about it. It was stage 4 when it was detected. Right lung, pleura, up my lymph nodes to the opposite side. There was a lot of it. And I've had Stereotactic RadioSurgery a few times for metastases in my brain.

Herceptin (trastuzumab) is mainly for HER-2 overexpression, whereas I have HER-2 mutation. However, we did try it last year alongside another chemo whose name I cannot remember, and IIRC that's the combo which gave me neuropathy in my feet (I now take lots of gabapentin every day so my feet don't feel like they're on fire).

Other than the clinical trial drug, which helped for a few months, the one thing that did help but eventually gave me pneumonitis so I had to stop it, was Enhertu.

New comment by borbulon in "Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever"

borbulon — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:34:12 +0000

No but since I'm a patient at Dana Farber in Chestnut Hill, I'm sure my oncologist does.

New comment by borbulon in "Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever"

borbulon — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:59:21 +0000

I wish you could remember more, I'd like to listen to that

New comment by borbulon in "Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever"

borbulon — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:38:21 +0000

The biggest thing people who have lost someone close to them have to say is that they start to forget what the person looked like and sounded like. I am doing it - I think if you keep it casual, like "hey, I was just thinking about you and the day you graduate high school, and I'll bet....." kind of thing, you're making it less morbid.

New comment by borbulon in "Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever"

borbulon — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:16:30 +0000

I was recently released from a clinical trial because of too many “newly measurable” areas of tumor. I was offered CAR-T but was told that it comes with a high risk of possibly fatal infections and is not guaranteed to work at all for my cancer (HER-2 positive lung cancer, stage 4). I turned it down. I have a wife and 3 kids, I’d rather spend an unknown amount of time being fully present with them than risk my life today.

New comment by borbulon in "Uncomfortable truth: How close is "positivity culture" to delusion and denial?"

borbulon — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:51:41 +0000

They’re already doing clinical trials on cancer vaccines in many countries.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/31/what...

New comment by borbulon in "Words you can spell with a calculator (2005)"

borbulon — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:12:26 +0000

No “boobless” as a shout out to us gen X kids??

New comment by borbulon in "Boeing's starliner docks at ISS after five thrusters unexpectedly shut off"

borbulon — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 21:31:20 +0000

I think given Boeing’s focus on profit over quality and safety lately, this really shouldn’t come as a surprise.

New comment by borbulon in "Scientific glassblower continues century-old campus tradition (2021)"

borbulon — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:35:54 +0000

My daughter was there recently on a class trip, and she was amazed at how lifelike the plants were.

New comment by borbulon in "Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs"

borbulon — Sat, 11 May 2024 12:42:20 +0000

Though we have yet to shoot the seals

Edit: context

https://youtu.be/s95mEchLZEA

New comment by borbulon in "For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter"

borbulon — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:55:17 +0000

Maine is full of them. There’s a China, Maine as well as Palermo, Belfast, Belgrade, Poland, Peru, Denmark, Dresden, South Korea, Stockholm,Calais…

New comment by borbulon in "The Brotherhood of Morons"

borbulon — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:58:50 +0000

> What Taleb calls the Intellectual Yet Idiot (IYI) - someone who has the mannerisms and interests of a superficially intelligent person but who nonetheless is unable to self-reflect or deal with nuance, such as the Harvard-educated Ben Shapiro.

I worked in Harvard Square for 5 years (dead center, across the street from Curious George, between the Greenhouse and the Coop), and it was always my assertion that Harvard is full of Well-Educated Idiots.

New comment by borbulon in "Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf]"

borbulon — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 12:03:28 +0000

Up until Con Air, neither Nicholas Cage nor John Cusack had made a bad movie (well, -maybe- one each).

New comment by borbulon in "Induce Lucid Dreaming"

borbulon — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:53:17 +0000

It’s not the getting to lucid dreaming that’s the problem, it’s the “oh! I’m dreaming!” part. Wakes me up every time.

That and I have dreams about flying, but as soon as I realize I’m having dreams about flying, I wake up and the flying dreams stop.

New comment by borbulon in "The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)"

borbulon — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 19:44:50 +0000

I think also in some respects Altered Carbon, the Netflix series (at least the first season).

New comment by borbulon in "He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price"

borbulon — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:48:26 +0000

A Michael Mann film, no less! An all-around great piece of cinema.