I don’t know the exact circumstances, but I think maybe in a trial? It was out of state at a cancer specializing hospital (we live in SC). She also had most of her pancreas removed, as I understand it.
Thank you! Hear hear! I’m hopeful the tide is turning.
Also she’s doing really, really well! Living it up and traveling and spending time with her grandkids. I’m so grateful to medicine and the doctors who treated her.
I hate that for you and I’m sorry for your loss. My dad also died ahead of a major treatment breakthrough (he died of AIDS in 2005 just before the drugs that would make HIV a manageable chronic condition). He had already lived so much longer than expected and his ID doc was distraught. It sucks.
My aunt got it and her aggressive stage 4 cancer disappeared in some places and shrunk down to almost nothing in others! She didn’t even have pancreatic cancer, but renal cancer that had spread to her pancreas (and elsewhere). In May ‘24 she was told she had about 8 months to live. Two years later!!
Evergreen after all!
BLESS YOU
-Luddite extraordinaire
😖 how do I disable these stupid iPhone AI summaries of my emails and texts? I am capable of reading an email ffs. And sometimes the summaries are wrong!
How to say someone is lying without making them sound like a bad person
Well put.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
TOO REAL. Cracking uppppp. (And also, I’m soooooo sorry—norovirus is from the seventh circle of Hell)
Jesus fucking christ, the President is threatening genocidal war crimes
A baby in my due date group was hospitalized with a vaccine-preventable illness and is still doing poorly after discharge. My faith in humanity is at its nadir.
The 4 month sleep regression has left me with Stockholm Syndrome. He’s mostly sleeping well again, averaging 1 wake-up per night, but when he falls asleep in my arms, I don’t want to transfer him. Just want to feel his sweet baby weight in my arms and rub his baby head and smell his baby smells 🥺
A show of bipartisan unity!
🤦♀️ give me a break
😖 so disconcerting!
Unfortunately some of my 4 month old’s rooting noises have started to sound just like one of the Cordyceps-infected stalker zombies from TLOU season 2. I’d like to say I’m handling this well, but that seems contradicted by the tachycardia.
He did it!! He went back to sleep at 4:30!
🥳 baby slept in his bassinet from 10:15 PM to 3:45 AM!!! Hoping/praying he’ll go back down after eating, but this is unreal marvelous after last night.
Thank you so much! He slept in the bassinet from 6 through breakfast! So that was great—I could go eat with the big bros—and then he let me catch another 90 mins or so before he had to wake for meds/feeding. Going on 2 weeks of this and just hoping that was the peak 🤪
Thank you!! The reminders help. We got very lucky with our last baby who was a certified Good Sleeper. Our first was tricky at this stage, too, but this guy takes the prize!
Thank you so much, Mary! I didn’t have the brain cells to respond but your reply made me feel less alone. WOOF that was a night. He finally crashed after 5. Naturally when I woke him up to feed him and give him his meds a few hours later he grinned like he wasn’t a perfect menace all night 🙄
This 4 mon sleep regression is doing me in. I’ve had 40 min of bad sleep tonight. He hasn’t gone down in his bassinet for more than like 10 min consecutively the whole night without crying. My only consolation is that every time we hit our breaking point things seem to get better. Keeping the faith.
That’s fair! I think where I am a lot of people haven’t heard of Bluesky or think of it as too political. I like it. I guess I’ll say that want to like it more. I was grateful it was here when I said goodbye to X last year.
Welcome! lol I joined Threads because the engagement is low here 😂 but the humor writing scene is active!
"The length of your stay reveals the extent of my draft’s power to pull the reader in. So even before you’ve given me any notes, you’re already saving me from downward spiraling into self-doubt. Thank you!"
This @mcsweeneys.net piece by Julianna Miner is sending me this morning. We read it aloud at breakfast and were howling at the table. Needed this today more than I can say.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ive...
Ugh, I’m so sorry - I have this, too, and it’s the worst. I hope they’ll let you put steroids or antihistamines on the welts if it’s possible, and wishing you a quick recovery from them (and the surgery).
Trump post
Enemy 1) Foreign autocracy
Enemy 2) Domestic opposition party