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Going for the Jugular (opens the original)
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The surgical drape arced up over me like the bell of a tuba. My head was turned to the left and my right arm was outstretched to give the interventional radiology physician assistant access to the middle of my chest above my right pec.That’s where he was about to place the Hickman line, a tunneled central venous catheter.“Your body can only absorb 30 grams of protein at a time. That’s why I always have a protein shake before I work out,” the PA said.This is not true.If you ingest more than 30 gr
Invasion of my body snatcher (opens the original)
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“What arises passes away.”-from the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, the first sermon the Buddha gave in Deer Park“Nobody’s invincible. No plan is fool proof. We all must meet our moment of truth.”-Gang StarrGet my deep dive on the cancer experience on the Choose the Hard Way podcast everywhere you listen and watch including YouTube, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/267NkvFZCeXN0ErIB9BGS9?si=Ufltx-iHT86zmNbc
Why I’m racing an ultramarathon (opens the original)
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Max Jolliffe recently set the fastest known time for the Badwater 135 ultramarathon, a foot race from Death valley to Whitney Portal in 20 hours, 53 minutes, and 46 seconds.The fastest known time for the Moab 240 of 55 hours, 49 minutes, and 58 seconds was set by Michael McKnight in 2021.It took Tadej Pogacar a cumulative of 73 hours, 56 minutes, and 26 seconds to win the 2026 Tour de France.Cancer is an ultramarathon of unknown time, distance, and intensity.My first round of EPOCH-R chemotherap
Chemo Sommelier (opens the original)
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I was at the infusion center in Portland getting a bag of Oxaliplatin and recording an episode of Beyond the Peloton with Spencer when I noticed there was a small pool of liquid on the laptop under my left wrist. I’d had a few sips of water and I figured that somehow it had spilled onto my computer.I wiped it up and kept going. Having been through three different chemotherapy regimens in the past five months, I feel like something of a chemo sommelier.Oxaliplatin feels like a flamethrower being
Riders on the Cytokine Release Storm (opens the original)
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I’m on day five of what was supposed to be a 24-hour hospitalization for a new immunotherapy and recovering from cytokine release syndrome.After waiting 30 hours in the hospital for the interventional radiology team to put in a PICC line, I was finally plumbed and ready to go.On day two, they hooked me up to a bag of Glofit, a bispecific T-Cell engaging antibody, and four hours later it was done. Then they needed to observe me for 24 hours to make sure I didn’t have cytokine release syndrome.Smo
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