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UPDATE: call 855-438-0679. Fight with the AI humanoid to ‘connect me to a human’.’ Be politely mean to it. It will talk over you, so just wait for it to stop, tell it that is failing at its job to connect you to a human. It will get slightly argumentative. (My wife was laughing her ass off) After about 8 minutes it will eventually give up and connect you. The service rep fixed the address in like 2 min.

Kind of a weird situation: ordered a US mens olympic jersey back in Feb/March. Delivery is ‘supposedly’ now in September. I had to move for cancer treatment, so I reached out to Fanatics to change the delivery address. Fought through the AI customer service, denied at every turn. Trying to find a human seems impossible. Anyone had any luck?

47 yrs old.
2024 June: Orchiectomy, pure seminoma, staged 1a.
2026 June: CT scan showed lymph node enlargement, confirmed with PET/CT (July)

In the past two weeks since the PET/CT things moved relatively quick. I was able to get sent home for treatment, aligned with an oncologist, and just had my initial meeting.

We are going to do 4x EP for a few reasons related to the side effects of bleomycin.

1. I’m close to 50 which is their cutoff for BEP.
2. I have a very recent history of a provoked blood clot. Which frankly was much more terrifying than cancer.
3. I’m a professional pilot so lung side effects are an issue for my career.
4. My wife and I are active, lots of travel, we also dive a-lot. Yes, I could give things up, but we want to enjoy the time we have on this earth.

We discussed all of this thoroughly, the doctor has a background in aviation which helped as well. The success % difference between 3x BEP and 4x EP is relatively small and acceptable. I feel comfortable with the plan going forward.

Now I have to get a port placed. More to follow…

Well dudes, seems like it is back:

FDG-avid right pelvic sidewall/internal iliac chain adenopathy (dominant node 4.7 5.3 cm, SUVmax 4.7; additional smaller node SUVmax 5.3), consistent with metastatic involvement.

Urologist referred me to oncologist.

(Pure seminoma, right testicle orchiectomy, staged 1A in June 2024)

Background: June 2024, pure seminoma, orchi, staged 1A. June 26 CT scan showed undetermined lymph nodes in lower abdomen. Doc ordered PET/CT.

After over a month of waiting a more than a few phone calls, I finally got my PET/CT scheduled. I’ll be going in next Monday.

Today I get a super frustrating phone call from my doctor saying it will take three weeks to get the results.

That makes zero sense to me. My CT scan results came back within 24 hrs from the same facility.

My understanding is that seminoma really ‘likes’ the radioactive glucose and it will be fairly clear as to if the cancer is back.

Is that a false presumption?

I installed DCS on a dedicated internal SSD (Crucial T500 2tb) last summer. Ran great. Fast forward to today, haven’t played DCS in about two months, figured I’d update it and was thinking about getting the F-100. Click my desktop shortcut….drive location does not exist.

Been trouble shooting for an hour now. No luck.

Checked it in disk management. Not there (figured I’d start easy)
Checked it in BIOS, not there
Re-seated card, repeated BIOS check, no go.
Swapped M.2 slot, repeated BIOS check, Not recognized (other card was, so the M.2 slots are good)

Kind of resigned to the card being dead.

Any ideas?

Sigh.

Edit: just found out Crucial stopped operations in February. So no warranty anymore. Bummer

2024 TC pure seminoma, clean margins. Orchi followed by monitoring.

Went in for my two year blood work and CT scan yesterday. Blood work was good/normal. Urologist said the scans looked good too. Then this morning he called me back and said the radiologist had concerns about two lymph-nodes. They are working to schedule me for a PET scan now.

Honestly was kinda shocked. To go from the high of another clear scan, to this.

Reading through here the past two years, I understand that nodes react to illness, ect. It also seems like without increase in markers, it shouldn’t be as concerning.

Keeping a positive attitude.

Had a good laugh today, let my 8 year old nephew play some other games on my ipad. At some point he apparently found WoT, proceeded to play and loose 30 games or so straight. Received tons of downvotes, surprised I didn’t get banned.

Only found out when he came to me and said, this tank game is hard. So I showed him how to play, actually got some random wins but was mostly useless. More downvotes.

I’m never gonna financially recover from this. lmao

Background: had provoked DVT post knee surgery. Was put on 90 Eliquis treatment.

Some good news, had my 90 day ultrasound done Friday morning. Doc had both legs done ‘why not’ was his take. Scans were clear! Yesterday was my final day on Eliquis.

He said it would take about 72 hrs to fully leave my system. Pretty excited as this means I can get back to my primary job….flying.

I guess in the future, I’ll need to go on something post surgery since this provoked DVT occurred. Is that a fair assumption?