After thirteen heavy gamma ray treatments I finally have the strength to get caught up in the yard work!
Alas, that was a joke. Contrary to Marvel Comics, gamma rays and other forms of radioactivity do not convey super powers. Gamma rays cause weakness, brain fog and low level nausea. It has been a rather unproductive month.
The effectiveness has been limited as well. I was originally prescribed 10 gamma ray treatments, but like an evil robot in a classic Dr. Who episode, the tumor absorbed the energy and grew. So three more treatments were added. The last one was a week ago and I'm still recovering.
The radiation treatments did reduce the pain; I'm not keeping an ice bag handy like I was a month ago. But net benefit is questionable, as the pics to follow will indicate. Also, I think the radiation has knocked my general immune system down so other tumors are growing. I'm not doing radiation again. I'll try Ivermectin, wormwood, black walnut skin extract, voodoo, crystal power, homeopathy, Canadian Healthcare, or moving to California to fertilize the sidewalks and take interesting drugs before I go the radiation route again. My hat is off to those who tough it out through long spans of barely beneficial treatments. At my age it's just not worth it.
Anyway, from the front things don't look so bad:
But from other angles, things look less pleasant. Gamma ray burn looks like sunburn, but much deeper. The weak of stomach should leave now. Here's some morning glories as a separator.
Here's a pic of the original lesion. It's growing back.
And now the puke de resistance, the irradiated lymph gland.
I waited close to a week from the last treatment to let the gamma burns calm down. This shot was yesterday, a Monday. The last treatment was the previous Tuesday.
And here is a pic from a different angle to show the height:
On the upside, I had a monoclonal antibody infusion last Friday, and it triggered a fever that afternoon. My immune system is still responding to the treatments. Need to find the right immune boosters so that my immune system kills cancer cells faster than they grow...
Tags: cancer
Chris Price on Sep 9, 2025 6:36 PM
This must be incredibly frustrating and discouraging. Keep your humor, and don't sacrifice your dignity by plunging into the gaping maw that is California.
Violetta Spring on Sep 9, 2025 8:06 PM
I want to find out more about CAR T therapy too if there is a possibility of this method. I do not know enough about it.
AFCulpeper@ ‘; #% on Sep 9, 2025 8:20 PM
Man, this is rough.
If you’re serious about boosting immunity look at growing your own microgreens, in particular mixed brassica ones, more broccoli added to it, and also red radish. Other ones for variety. I’m supposed to suppress vs boost my immunity and def feel dizzy and weird and the effects after eating a bowl of them; they do deliver the immunity boost.
But after checking with doc, sometimes you boost what they are trying to kill.
If OKed, just don’t buy wasteful kits etc, you’ll spend a lot to make one tray at a time. Just open up 3 standard 4ft wide shelves (amazon bought Chinese shelving might be nonstandard and too narrow) in a dark room, get six 4ft lights, 2 1020 heating mats, 20 pack of shallow 1020 trays and drill small holes in 10, a few deep 1020 trays to use as covers, washed coco coir bricks (I have great luck with Coco bliss from Amazon, it lasts for so many trays!), bulk seeds from trustworthy supplier, a few water sprayers for water and cleaning stuff, and some hydrogen peroxide and bleach for sanitizing, and a salad spinner with small holes. With this setup after the initial cost you’ll be making huge bowls of microgreens for breakfast/lunch/dinner with about a 10 min investment in time per day and pretty low on going costs.
Carl Milsted, Jr on Sep 9, 2025 8:41 PM
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Thanks for the detailed tips! I've been thinking about doing some microgreens. Just haven't gotten around to it yet. Now that I'm off the radiation, I now have the concentration to take a crack at such things.
Carl Milsted, Jr on Sep 9, 2025 8:44 PM
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Also, have you played with the new style feature? You can do delightfully horrible things, just like on MySpace back in the day.
AFCulpeper@ ‘; #% on Sep 11, 2025 9:50 AM
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No, I’ll add some to mine! But honestly you’ll never catch up with the greatness that used to be until you add a .blink tag to QTML.
AFCulpeper@ ‘; #% on Sep 11, 2025 10:00 AM
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The odd thing is it scales up really easily; now I understand why everyone who sets one up tries to make a business out of it. Around here some guy name Microgreen Hans and three of his friends are making it work well. $120 subscription with 4 monthly deliveries. (Once you set up that’s only few dollars cost for one self btw) I think half of it is the health promises he makes and I live in an older folks neighborhood, and the other half 4 young kids getting support.
Carl Milsted, Jr on Sep 11, 2025 12:00 PM
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Oh my! I did a search on the Mozilla Developer Network, and it turns
out that it is possible to do all sorts of evil things with the
animation
style attribute. It is possible to do blinks, marquees, bouncing text,
and other stylistic atrocities! You are giving me ideas...
AFCulpeper@ ‘; #% on Sep 12, 2025 8:47 AM
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Oh dang, maybe best not to! (With recent updates Apple’s iMessages has been becoming more full of stylistic atrocities with the Text Effects. Eight now and probably more soon)
Every once in a while I search blink tag on Google to see Google do their trick and there is just something not right with how they do the blink vs the original blink.
Carl Milsted, Jr on Sep 12, 2025 9:21 AM
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If I get to it, I'll let you critique the blink. There's lots of knobs in that there animation attribute.
Doing the marquee looks to be a bit more of a challenge. But it might be cool to have a modern marquee that can have verying font weights and even inline equations inside.
Finally, I found that you can custom tags to HTML5 if you structure the tag names properly. This means I can make some more color tags. (I had been naughtily repurposing the strong and em tags.) You cannot just use span tags because when the overlap, you cannot control which span you are closing first.
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