Tonight is one of those nights where I find myself overwhelmed with grief again.
My therapist things I might have prolonged grief disorder. I think he might be right.
#TheLegendaryToby #FuckCancer
It'll be 5 years soon since #TheLegendaryToby died of cancer.
I still have his email account active in the futile hope that someone he knew might one day decide to reach out to him.
#grief
Happy Birthday, #TheLegendaryToby.
😢💔
#FuckCancer
It makes me sad to read that so many parents willfully deny life-saving #vaccines to their children.
If there was a vaccine for the #cancer that took #TheLegendaryToby from us, I wouldn't think twice to give it to him.
Why would parent's risk their children's lives like that? It's unfathomable.
My #grief since losing #TheLegendaryToby to #cancer has felt like starting life over again. My wife and I even welcomed new children, and moved to #NorthernOntario.
Pretty soon, we'll be doing something that we were planning on doing with #TheLegendaryToby. Instead, we're doing it our toddler twins, 5 years later.
The emotional duality is exhausting. But, here we go. ✈️
#Grief
Just ran my "Patient Symptom Game" through #ChatGPT after establishing an agent persona with expertise as a Primary Care Physician.
It bumped up #TheLegendaryToby differential diagnosis probability of #FLC #Cancer by a few more months. Need to validate on other generative platforms.
I'm also using the same app to help me establish some discipline to my eating habits throughout the day. I've lost 2 pounds this week. Hopefully, in about 3 months, I'll be back to where I was about a year ago before hopes and dreams for building a house to honour #TheLegendaryToby went south.
Made a difficult decision this weekend to terminate a friendship with someone that supports DOGGYS cuts to health and cancer care, including pediatric oncology research grants. Research that could one day have saved the life of #TheLegendaryToby
A process like this might have saved my son's life.
Obviously, there would have to be a framework to protect from discrimination, etc.
#TheLegendaryToby #FuckCancer
And now, occassionally, I find myself dwelling in trying to figure out what the next thing ought to be -- what else can I do -- to honour #TheLegendaryToby.
The #PapineauHomes project I was working on was intended to be a part of that: To honour #TheLegendaryToby love of building #Lego MoCs, and entire worlds in #Minecraft. It hurt on so many levels that the project fell through.
I've been thinking about this new film for the #TerryFoxFoundation all day. It hits me square in the feels, having lost #TheLegendaryToby to #cancer.
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#TheLegendaryToby remained fascinated by animals, and dinosaurs in particular, past the age of 10.
So much so that he learned some rudimentary Latin and Greek to understand their classifications.
He understood his Fibrolameller Carcinoma was terminal before the doctors told us.
#FuckCancer
It's wild, what ends up being a grief-bomb trigger for me. Today, it's #ThrowbackThursday music on #Spotify from my teenage years -- an era and a sense of nostalgia that #TheLegendaryToby will never experience. #grief
About a month ago, when asked about frustration toward people complaining of snow, I reflected on its joy for me, and #TheLegendaryToby love for it.
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Some promising clinical trial results for a vaccine to treat FLC cancer. #TheLegendaryToby #FuckCancer
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My #Wrapped 2023 on #Spotify lists #Beck as my top artist, and I know exactly why.
The song Colours was one of the only songs #TheLegendaryToby said he liked. I still listen to it frequently.