mpnagle

You may be interested in the VITALITY study out of China from 2022. 400+ people given FOLFOX + Avastin (standard of care, first line for colorectal cancer) vs FOLFOX + Avastin + high dose Vit C.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35929990/

Roughly showed no change for the overall population, but a significant increase in progression free survival for folks with RAS mutations.

As someone with a stage 4 colorectal cancer with a RAS mutation, this is interesting to me!

Interested to try some things from the mythological early style!

I'm actually thinking of reading his entire collection, I've been so impressed by him. I just got No Country for Old Men.

Cool to hear the rec for Sunset Limited!

I think a job where it's understood that you may have to take a day off with very little notice, or more, will go a long way to everyone's peace of mind, and I found it was possible to find that.

Having read some of the comments, it seems really important to me to center the information that you're queer, supporting a disabled partner. I worked in tech from 2013-2020, and from 2015-2020 my Dad's health was very fragile, and he had made no financial plans. I became his guardian, paying for homes, doing the paperwork, managing the care, and I think this is a huge piece of any situation like this.

There's a lot of curiosity in the comments about what the right environment and role is. I share those questions, but I also think it's important to just feel into the situation more before moving to action.

Queerness I also know for me, in tech, reminded me of the idea - everyone has to learn the dominant paradigm, and then there's ours. Meaning, I do think I experience the world differently through queerness, and it was a navigation to own that and lean into its gifts, rather than just feel a sense of otherness. I don't know if that's part of your experience or not, but it felt worth sharing.

I have started offering coaching - if you'd like to just connect for an hour (no charge or anything, just connection) my email is in my profile. My instinct is it would just be good to drop into what you're saying and really feel through the layers of life situation, the creeping in fear, the aloneness, the stuckness, and see where forward might be in all of it...

I’ve also sat a comparable amount of ceremony — and so of course there’s strictness about SSRIs...but I have never thought about the mechanisms like this. It just wouldn’t have occurred to me to explore in this way.

If you do find the succinct, detailed write up I’d love to see. Thank you for finding the YouTube link, I want to check it out!

via https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/ayahuasca/

I imagine what Doblin meant is working with MDMA after an ayahuasca ceremony.

I guess I mean something a little different then. That it's really heartwarming to see an employer 'go to bat' for his team's work and his company. I was resonating with the experience of directly having freelanced with a client feeling 'out of control.' I was really caught off-guard by it and it felt (in hindsight a mistake) easy to give an inch and give another inch. There's something here -- maybe I can't put my finger on it -- in this blog post that makes me thing the author would be an incredible asset in putting down hard limits and boundaries when they need to be put down.

Thanks!

I would upvote you as a human if I could. Thank you!

Also you are Sri Lankan right? My mom is Sri Lankan and grew up there, so I am always happy to see another Sri Lankan thriving!

I feel like there should be some feed of blimp data somewhere? But similarly extensive searching didn't turn it up for me either.

I'd be interested to hear what you've come across.