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Basil

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  1. The Texans are about the stupidest franchise they can can be. That makes them o ly the second stupiedst franchise in Texas because Jerry Jones won’t die. But fuck them too.
  2. Stutter step didn’t help.
  3. They will give you ativan in your chemo drip if you ask. You def want that.
  4. Unless he’s retired the port surgeon sings the whole time. He’s pretty good.
  5. I first saw this guy's name a few months ago because he has a bunch of KOMs next to my neighborhood. I found his "rode the Tour de France" credentials to be acceptable.
  6. Basil

    Fat People

    You know anecdotes don't make for good science, right? People are different, yes, but there's general rules that generally apply.
  7. Basil

    Fat People

    Definitely not easy, but both can be done and are done every day.
  8. Basil

    Fat People

    You’re saying it’s largely not a choice because Americans are not genetically capable of escaping a fat culture of eating like shit? You’ve identified the obvious problem but find the obvious solution out of reach?
  9. Basil

    Fat People

    Pretty sure you can read between the lines and say being fat is a choice for most people. Which seems accurate considering like half the population is fat. There are some people who are medically fat but operating at a calorie deficit is going to cause you to lose weight. Like Pearland, I also went from fat to running marathons. If you’re looney enough you can cardio yourself skinny so long as you don’t eat like a total slob.
  10. Basil

    Fat People

    The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was consecutive high liver enzymes in my blood work at 45. Doc was like, “that’s not right, we need to test you for hepatitis.” And I was, “nah, I lack formal medical training but I’ve got this bad boy figured out.” I also had high blood pressure going back a few years. All those health concerns were gone within a few months.
  11. Basil

    Fat People

    I had forgotten but started this thread in 2021 as a daily drinker after watching a tub of goo use his finger to scrape nacho cheese from a batting helmet. At the time I was about 225, which at 6’ required a bit more than the 20 pounds I thought I needed to drop. I’m now 170 with about 12% body fat and 80% of that weight loss was from cutting out alcohol. It’s really, really hard to overcome that 500 plus calories per day daily drinking adds. I couldn’t really make a dent in it for 15 years with diet and exercise. Quit drinking and lost 50 pounds in six months. And the shitty thing I knew damn well the drinking was the main problem but convinced myself there was a workaround in there if I kept trying. On a more positive note I’m getting ready to go to Brenner’s Steakhouse with a 3000 calorie deficit for the day so it’s ribeye and potatoes and dessert.
  12. I coulda been a world class pitcher if I got that strike call.
  13. I was a senior during the heroin epidemic.
  14. I just got a &4,500 road bike in November. So it’s going to take some finesse. But I like the “cheaper than a drug habit” logic.
  15. Basil

    Favorite Dead Comedian

    And we were driving on here a day across the desert, and it occurred to us they wouldn’t be world hunger if you people would live where the food is! You live in a desert, understand that?! You live in a fucking desert!! Nothing grows out of here! Nothing’s going to grow out of here!
  16. I regularly do 4-5+ hours on the bike and finished a marathon training block in January. I'm not the fastest but I love long distances. But I've got a (1) bum knee that needs to be babied, (2) no idea how to swim and (3) zero brick training. I'm still enjoying and improving on the bike. I'll get to addressing those other variables sometime in the next year and sign up for a 70.3. Oh, and I don't have a tri bike and its going to be a bitch to convince my wife I need another bike.
  17. There's dating options if the worst comes -
  18. Well, this won't be a surprise, but that's folfox as well. I'd add that 48 hours of the Ox infusion I'd crash and often spend (most) of a day or two in a dark room just lying in bed. No stimuli. I had the ox infusion on Wednesday so my wiped out days would be on the weekends.
  19. I take it from context at least you are also NED, so congrats. I started pissing blood a few months ago and got the complete workup including CT scans, so I got a free NED-pass with the negative results. (blood was from marathon training and is fairly common) I remember my docs talking about IDEA but folfox was protocol for Prospect. I also remember showing up in court a couple of times with that 5-fu pump on. That was stupid. I have no recollection about whatever insignificant hearings they were or why I was dumb enough to thing I belonged there wearing a chemo pump.
  20. I appreciate the kind words but I'm not really in danger of missing a time cutoff. I'm 100% recovered from cancer. I'm thinking about pacing and prefer (and appreciate) the insights of you all that have done it a few times over the random "advice" I can find elsewhere on the internet.
  21. So in a half, for us old folks I'm guessing a mid-to-decent time is about 3 hours bike, 2 hours running and, well, I have no idea swimming. Is that about right?
  22. As I'm sure know, SOC is (or was at least) chemorad/surgery/12 rounds folfox/capox. The Prospect Trial (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2303269) used folfox instead of chemorad. I'm one of the 1194. I had a complete response and my functionality is pretty close to pre-cancer even with the TME surgery. I was dx'd 3/16/17 and essentially discharged 8/3/17. It was a whirlwind.
  23. Interdasting. I was a t3n1m0. I enrolled in a clinical trial and had six rounds of folfox before surgery. The surgical path report came back t0n0mx. And that was the unexpected end of that. Good luck on you PET. I was/am at MDAnderson and took a certain comfort knowing I was at the best cancer hospital in the world and there was nothing more to be done. So just roll with it. And always ask for ativan to be added to any infusions.
  24. On my tv, you have to search for/open the ESPN app and then there’s a sports menu. “College baseball” then lists a shitload of games, including sec plus.
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