No subject (Part 5)

Slipping into Darkness

The great French artiste Edith Piaf had something to say about nothing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcyeka0_q8

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Age: 73
Chronic prostatitis (age 60 on)
BPH w/ urinary obstruction, 6/2011
TURP, 7/2011
Ongoing high PSA, 7/2011-12/2011
Biopsy, 12/2011: positive 3/12 (90%, 70%, 5%)
Gleason 6(3+3), T1c
No mets, PCa likely still organ contained
IMRT w/ HT (Lupron), 4/2012-6/2012
PSAs (since post-IMRT): 0.1 or lower

Andrew -

A great poem about nothing deserves a great critical review:

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Age: 73
Chronic prostatitis (age 60 on)
BPH w/ urinary obstruction, 6/2011
TURP, 7/2011
Ongoing high PSA, 7/2011-12/2011
Biopsy, 12/2011: positive 3/12 (90%, 70%, 5%)
Gleason 6(3+3), T1c
No mets, PCa likely still organ contained
IMRT w/ HT (Lupron), 4/2012-6/2012
PSAs (since post-IMRT): 0.1 or lower

not anything, no thing, nonexistence, inexistence, nonbeing, nullity, nihility, oblivion, nonentity, emptiness.

So many words to describe that which is a figment of our imagination. There are many more examples which, I think, just emphasizes our frustration for comprehending nothing.

The weakest description is probably "nothingness," which I'd say, by definition, is something.

The chicken/egg puzzle is much easier. Almost certainly the egg preceded the chicken. 😮

aleph, however, mammals do it (live births) differently from sharks and seahorses. Sharks are ovoviviparous--they carry the maturing eggs within their bodies and they 'hatch' and are pushed out through the skin, rather than maturing in a uterus. Even weirder, as I recall, it is the seahorse males that carry the fertilized eggs around.

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Age at Diagnosis: 56
RALP on 2/17/15, BJC St. Louis, Dr. Figenshau
58.5g, G3+4, 20%, 4 quadrants involved
PSA Non-Detect since April, 2015
My Story: www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=35&m=3300024

Lol! Yep, a one night stand can turn out to be more than you bargained for!

But, Andrew, when Amazon gets its drone delivery service up (literally) and running (see below), and one drone takes off with the egg, and heads for your place, and then another drone carrying the chicken also takes off and heads for your place, and they both wind up getting there and landing in your yard at the very same instant, well, the same old question comes up all over again!

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=amazon+drones&view=detail&mid=38d95eb162ee14a4f2c038d95eb162ee14a4f2c0&form=vire

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Age: 73
Chronic prostatitis (age 60 on)
BPH w/ urinary obstruction, 6/2011
TURP, 7/2011
Ongoing high PSA, 7/2011-12/2011
Biopsy, 12/2011: positive 3/12 (90%, 70%, 5%)
Gleason 6(3+3), T1c
No mets, PCa likely still organ contained
IMRT w/ HT (Lupron), 4/2012-6/2012
PSAs (since post-IMRT): 0.1 or lower

What if the delivery arrives with the hen incubating the egg? Back to square one.

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Part I
2015 (Age 54) PSA: 20.8
Bx: All cores G7 (4+3)
RALP & Adjuvant RT
Pathology: G8 (4+4)+5
PSA nadir: 0.1, steady increase until 2019: 64

Part II
2019, March: Lupron/Xtandi, PSA: 0.036

Thankfully I have not posted on this nothing thread for awhile. Once logo posted here the thread should have been locked. Because THAT is something.

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Dx 5/18/17
11/12 cores 2 4+4
RALP 7/27/17;3 pos nodes
psa post op 0.15 to 0.28
scan=multiple bone mets
Clev Clinic ups to G9
CClinic MO+my MO say ADT+Zytiga+Pred
lupron 11/17/17
zytiga 12/15
psa 12/28 0.03
4/4/18=<0.01
7/3=<0.01
stop Zytiga 7/16 bad liver #'s
9/11/18 restart Zytiga 1/2 dose
10/5=<0.01
10/30 start 3/4 dose
1/19=<0.01
4/19=<0.01
7/19=<0.01

Just caught tail end of discussion but Julian Barnes has a good book on death, Nothing to be afraid of, or can be taken...Nothing, to be afraid of.

If no one is home to see it when the Amazon drones arrive with the chicken and the egg did neither one come first? Or did they both come first?

alephnull said...
"Say it ain't so Joe"

LOL....you should know a lot about minor league players in the Majors.

This morning I could think of nothing at all, so I'm here.

Happy Friday folks!!!!!

Post Edited (alephnull) : 8/16/2019 8:02:18 AM (GMT-6)