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Cancer Update (if anybody actually cares)

I’ve passed the two-year mark with no evidence of cancer.  The half-hour immunotherapy drips will now come just every four weeks; CT scans of the torso will happen every four months; and MRIs of the brain will be six months apart.  Both of my oncologists (the chemo guy and the radiation guy) are pleased, so I am too.

So far, I’d say that I’ve been tremendously fortunate.  (I’m not sure that I deserve it, but I’ll take it. 😎 )

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Comments

  1. efogoto says

    Great news! May you long ride the rails with no evidence of cancer.

  2. Herb Sutter says

    Wonderful news, Bill!! So glad to hear it. 🎉

    And thank you so much again for hosting our huge ISO C++ standards committee in St Louis. It was a great meeting.

  7. lochaber says

    Congrats!.

    I don’t comment much, but I read and enjoy most of your posts, so am hoping you continue to post.

    🙂

  8. beholder says

    Nicely done.

    There’s always more of us who care than it seems. Even if we don’t always say so.

  11. billseymour says

    Thanks for all the nice comments.

    efogoto@1 and Bruce@9:  I don’t travel much anymore.  Now that I’m retired, my monthly expenses mostly match my pension plus Social Security; and I’d like to keep it that way.  I’ve been thinking about taking a joy ride, the Floridian to D.C., spend the night, then the Cardinal westbound; but my current mobility issues would require that I book an accessible bedroom in a sleeper both ways, and that would wind up costing thousands of dollars.

    Hi, Herb.

    Thanks for the thanks.  Over the years, WG21 has given me much more than I’ve given back.  (The only feature of C++ that can reasonably be attributed to me is initializers for non-static data members, and that was Mike Spertus’ idea originally.  I just wrote the standardese.)

    I’ve always had a wee bit of imposter syndrome.  I might well have been the least competent person on the committee (somebodey has to be); but considering the knowledge and abilities of all the other participants, I don’t find that to be an embarrassment. 😎

    John Morales@6:  No, I haven’t been able to quit entirely yet, but I’ve cut it to 3/4 of a pack per day and have a plan to cut it to half a pack.  We’ll see…

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