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Prescriptions for controversial drug shot up 250% for cancer patients after Mel Gibson endorsement

You’ve heard of pseudoscience — but what about celebrity science? New research suggests a bombshell claim from Mel…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication #AU #Australia #cancerpatients #CancerTreatment #Health #Ivermectin #MelGibson #Prescriptions #Stage4cancer #unproventreatments
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/670492/

Prescriptions for controversial drug shot up 250% for cancer patients after Mel Gibson endorsement

You’ve heard of pseudoscience — but what about celebrity science? New research suggests a bombshell claim from Mel…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication #AU #Australia #cancerpatients #CancerTreatment #Health #Ivermectin #MelGibson #Prescriptions #Stage4cancer #unproventreatments
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/670492/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/484265/ Prescriptions for controversial drug shot up 250% for cancer patients after Mel Gibson endorsement #CancerPatients #CancerTreatment #Éire #Health #IE #Ireland #Ivermectin #Medication #MelGibson #Prescriptions #Stage4Cancer #UnprovenTreatments

Kate Middleton’s Italian skills impress locals. So does her new name.

Princess Kate’s first solo overseas trip since completing cancer treatment has turned into an unexpected showcase of her…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #cancertreatment #GettyImages #PrinceWilliam #PrincessKate #speakingItalian
https://www.europesays.com/italy/15950/

Kate Middleton’s Italian skills impress locals. So does her new name. https://www.byteseu.com/2019057/ #CancerTreatment #GettyImages #Italy #PrinceWilliam #PrincessKate #SpeakingItalian

https://www.europesays.com/uk/959119/ Prescriptions for controversial drug shot up 250% for cancer patients after Mel Gibson endorsement #CancerPatients #CancerTreatment #Health #ivermectin #Medication #MelGibson #Prescriptions #Stage4Cancer #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnprovenTreatments

Princess Kate visits Italy in first official overseas trip since cancer treatment

Catherine, Princess of Wales, has arrived in Italy on her first official overseas trip since being treated for…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #BritishRoyals #cancertreatment #catherine #earlychildhood #earlyeducation #education #ldnd #Primary #PrincessKate #princesskatecancer #princessofwales #ReggioEmilia. #RoyalFamily #royals
https://www.europesays.com/italy/15871/

Prescriptions for controversial drug shot up 250% for cancer patients after Mel Gibson endorsement

You’ve heard of pseudoscience — but what about celebrity science? New research suggests a bombshell claim from Mel…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Medication #cancerpatients #cancertreatment #Health #ivermectin #MelGibson #prescriptions #stage4cancer #unproventreatments
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/641651/

UNC researchers develop promising combo therapy targeting glioblastoma, showing unprecedented results in preclinical studies. Innovative approach may transform brain cancer treatment strategies. #MedicalResearch #CancerTreatment

UNC researchers develop promising combo therapy targeting glioblastoma, showing unprecedented results in preclinical studies. Innovative approach may transform brain cancer treatment strategies. #MedicalResearch #CancerTreatment

UNC researchers develop promising combo therapy targeting glioblastoma, showing unprecedented results in preclinical studies. Innovative approach may transform brain cancer treatment strategies. #MedicalResearch #CancerTreatment

How does immunotherapy work for cancer? #immunotherapy #cancertreatment #immunity #oncology ... Continue to: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1499574371577390/

How does immunotherapy work for cancer? #immunotherapy #cancertreatment #immunity #oncology ... Continue to: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1499574371577390/

How does immunotherapy work for cancer? #immunotherapy #cancertreatment #immunity #oncology ... Continue to: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1499574371577390/

How does immunotherapy work for cancer? #immunotherapy #cancertreatment #immunity #oncology ... Continue to: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1499574371577390/

https://www.europesays.com/videos/23538/ Investigation: Cancer nurses and risk of miscarriage #cancer #CancerDrugs #CancerNurse #CancerTreatment #Channel4 #Channel4News #Channel4 #chemo #chemotherapy #InternationalNews #investigation #LatestNews #medical #medicine #nhs #NHSNurse #nurse #oncology #UKNews #WorldNews

https://www.europesays.com/africa/222237/ Nairobi targets system gaps as late cancer diagnoses strain care capacity #CancerAwareness #CancerBurden #CancerDiagnosis #CancerTreatment #Kenya

🧬 Which gene is known for suppressing tumors? #genes #tumors #oncology #cancertreatment ... Continue to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4MDYlPe3pY

🧬 Which gene is known for suppressing tumors? #genes #tumors #oncology #cancertreatment ... Continue to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4MDYlPe3pY

🧬 Which gene is known for suppressing tumors? #genes #tumors #oncology #cancertreatment ... Continue to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4MDYlPe3pY

🧬 Which gene is known for suppressing tumors? #genes #tumors #oncology #cancertreatment ... Continue to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4MDYlPe3pY

https://www.europesays.com/ie/457918/ Sonali Bendre on Cancer battle, says early detection could have changed everything: ‘It didn’t have to reach stage four’ | Hindi Movie News #CancerAwareness #CancerRemission #CancerTreatment #Éire #Entertainment #IE #ImportanceOfCancerScreening #Ireland #Movies #sonali #SonaliBendre #SonaliBendreCancerJourney #Stage4MetastaticCancer #TheHappyPawdcast

Indigenous Konyak Naga Herbal Medicine Shows Promising Anti-Cancer Potential, Study Finds

Researchers from Nagaland University, Berhampur University, and Saveetha Medical College have, in a preliminary investigation, identified traditional herbal…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication #cancer #Cancertreatment #Health #Herbs #Indigenousknowledge #KonyakNaga #Nagaland #NagalandUniversity #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/533830/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/435847/ Indigenous Konyak Naga Herbal Medicine Shows Promising Anti-Cancer Potential, Study Finds #cancer #CancerTreatment #Éire #Health #Herbs #IE #IndigenousKnowledge #Ireland #KonyakNaga #Medication #Nagaland #NagalandUniversity

Indigenous Konyak Naga Herbal Medicine Shows Promising Anti-Cancer Potential, Study Finds

Researchers from Nagaland University, Berhampur University, and Saveetha Medical College have, in a preliminary investigation, identified traditional herbal…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication #CA #Canada #cancer #CancerTreatment #Health #Herbs #Indigenousknowledge #KonyakNaga #Nagaland #NagalandUniversity
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/604792/

Ex-Senator Ben Sasse Displays Visible Toll of Experimental Cancer Treatment

Former Senator Ben Sasse shows physical effects from experimental cancer treatment. Learn about the drug daraxonrasib and its impact on patients.

#BenSasse, #CancerTreatment, #PancreaticCancer, #ExperimentalDrug, #HealthUpdate

https://newsletter.tf/ben-sasse-shows-cancer-treatment-effects-experimental/

Former Senator Ben Sasse revealed severe physical effects from his experimental cancer treatment, showing visible skin and blood damage. This comes as the drug daraxonrasib shows mixed results in trials for advanced pancreatic cancer.

#BenSasse, #CancerTreatment, #PancreaticCancer, #ExperimentalDrug, #HealthUpdate
https://newsletter.tf/ben-sasse-shows-cancer-treatment-effects-experimental/

Treating previously untreatable cancers: How CAR‑T cell therapy could be made accessible to more patients
#Canada #Health #CancerTreatment #CARTCellTherapy #MedicalInnovation #Biotech #CancerResearch #Medicine #AccessToCare #ClinicalTrials #Science
https://the-14.com/treating-previously-untreatable-cancers-how-car-t-cell-therapy-could-be-made-accessible-to-more-patients/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/422795/ Study finds increasing rates of therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia #AcuteMyeloidLeukemia #blood #Bone #BoneMarrow #BreastCancer #cancer #CancerTherapy #CancerTreatment #chemotherapy #DNA #DNADamage #Éire #GastricCancer #Health #IE #Ireland #Leukemia #MyeloidLeukemia #therapy

The Embarrassingly Simple Reason AI Can't Cure Cancer

#LookingGlassUniverse #Artifical_inteligence #cancer #cancertreatment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFcyWFK1q8I&list=UULFFk__1iexL3T5gvGcMpeHNA&index=1

https://www.europesays.com/ie/403523/ Blood pressure drug boosts effectiveness of cancer therapy #blood #BloodPressure #cancer #CancerTreatment #DNA #DNADamage #Drugs #Efficacy #Éire #Gene #Health #Homologous #HomologousRecombination #IE #immunotherapy #Ireland #Research #therapy #Tumor

This new Russian cancer-curing medication is currently being utilized in hospitals worldwide.
please visit the company's official website here.👇
❤️🫱https://zazacat.blogspot.com/2026/03/russia-cancer-treatment-breakthrough.html
#cancer
#cancertreatment
#cancertherapy
#oncology
#cancerawareness
#cancerresearch

This new Russian cancer-curing medication is currently being utilized in hospitals worldwide.
please visit the company's official website here.👇
❤️🫱https://zazacat.blogspot.com/2026/03/russia-cancer-treatment-breakthrough.html
#cancer
#cancertreatment
#cancertherapy
#oncology
#cancerawareness
#cancerresearch

This new Russian cancer-curing medication is currently being utilized in hospitals worldwide.
please visit the company's official website here.👇
❤️🫱https://zazacat.blogspot.com/2026/03/russia-cancer-treatment-breakthrough.html
#cancer
#cancertreatment
#cancertherapy
#oncology
#cancerawareness
#cancerresearch

Russia’s latest cancer cure
Watch the detailed video and learn about the latest cancer cures.🔥
👉https://zazacat.blogspot.com/
#RussiasLatestCancerCure
#CancerCure
#CancerTreatment
#MedicalBreakthrough
#HealthInnovation
#OncologyResearch

Fuelling the fight against breast cancer

A University of Alberta researcher has received a prestigious national fellowship to help women with breast cancer stay…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #breastcancer #CA #Canada #cancer #CancerTreatment #CarlaPrado #chemotherapy #DorothyKillamFellowship #muscle #Nutrition #Protein #SDG3 #wellbeing
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/529443/

Sweden and Philippines seek stronger collaboration on cancer treatment https://www.byteseu.com/1863250/ #CancerTreatment #DrGloriaBalboa #EmbassyOfSwedenInManila #PhilippineDepartmentOfHealthUndersecretary #Sweden #TeamSweden

Sweden and Philippines seek stronger collaboration on cancer treatment

Team Sweden met with Philippine Department of Health Undersecretary Dr. Gloria Balboa to discuss stronger cooperation on cancer…
#Sweden #Sverige #SE #Europe #Europa #EU #cancertreatment #Dr.GloriaBalboa #EmbassyofSwedeninManila #nyheter #PhilippineDepartmentofHealthUndersecretary #sweden #TeamSweden
https://www.europesays.com/2837791/

The Millisecond That Could Change Cancer Treatment

https://spectrum.ieee.org/flash-radiotherapy

#HackerNews #CancerTreatment #MillisecondInnovation #Radiotherapy #HealthTech #IEEE

My GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/6582b1dc2

If you can help, or share, I'd appreciate it.

#gofundme #beverlylanderson #cancertreatment #medicalbills #helpwithbills #ovariancancerwarrior #chemotherapy #chemo #cancer #financialhelp #ovariancancer #clearcellcarcinoma #cancerjourney #atealjourney

Going on a chemo journey after a dx of ovarian cancer. Hair? Gone.

Follow: https://www.youtube.com/@beverlylanderson

#chemojourney #chemotherapy #chemohair #chemohairdontcare #cancer #cancersucks #ovariancancer #ovariancancerwarrior #cancertreatment #chemosideeffects #chemowarrior #cancerjourney

Scientists at Monash University say they have found a way to permanently "switch off" genes that help cancer cells thrive. This could help development of a new style of treatment that might be more effective and less difficult for patients. “We have potentially identified a new way to exploit cancer’s weaknesses,” said Dr. Omer Gilan, who worked on the research. Here's more from SciTech Daily.

https://flip.it/fXvz-L

#Science #Medicine #Cancer #CancerTreatment #Genetics #Epigenetics

James Van Der Beek shared his hopes for the spring weeks before his death, and it's beautiful

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/james-van-der-beek-resolutions

https://www.europesays.com/ie/332674/ Alzheimer’s plaques decline after CAR-T immune cell treatment in preclinical study #Antibody #Antigen #Brain #cancer #CancerTreatment #CD4 #Cell #ChimericAntigenReceptor #dementia #Efficacy #Éire #Health #IE #immunotherapy #Ireland #Neurodegeneration #oncology #Pathology #Preclinical #Receptor #Research #Technology

Five Years In Remission

I entered remission five years ago on February 11th 2021.

It’s been a wild ride, to say the least.

Ultimately, everybody’s journey through cancer is their own. If you’re a cancer survivor too, your journey is not my journey, and my journey is not your journey, no matter how similar they may be. Some people never make it through. A sobering thought.

A cancer diagnosis is often a gut punch, but my diagnosis came as a relief to me. Prior to it, I had been slowly dying for months, but I did not know why or have a plan to deal with this slow death. My PCNS lymphoma diagnosis not only told me why I was dying, but it provided me with a plan: first chemo and then a stem cell transplant.

So I underwent treatment. After two rounds of chemo, the tumor was gone from my brain. After five rounds, I was declared to be in remission. Its now been five years since I entered remission, and my latest MRI, done in January of this year, indicates that my brain is still free from cancer. If I had gotten this disease 35 years ago, I would not have been so lucky. I would have died, pure and simple. Medicine has advanced.

After the chemo, I had a stem cell transplant. They extracted stem cells from my body, kept them in storage, destroyed my immune system, and finally they reinjected my stem cells so that I could rebuild my immune system. My entire treatment happened at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet, I never caught this disease.

It’s been a wild ride, I tell you!

My cancer was not the cause of my divorce, but it was a catalyst. My ex-wife and I had already been seeing a marriage counselor a good two years before my cancer showed up. After my treatment, I just did not see myself enduring through this marriage if nothing changed. I tried to change things, but it was in vain. So my ex-wife and I divorced. It is not what I would have wanted, but it was the way forward.

As we were discussing the divorce, I figured that there was no longer any reason for me to hide from the world the fact that I’m not straight, but pansexual. I knew since my teenage years that I wasn’t straight, and even told my wife before we got married that I was bisexual. That’s the only term that I knew at the time, but I prefer to call myself pansexual. Gender or its absence is just no obstacle when it comes to my desire to get intimate with someone else.

Besides being pansexual, I’m also polyamorous. Provided that I’m kept aware of my partners’ intimate encounters with other people, I don’t get jealous if they have those encounters. What gets to me is if I feel neglect. I suppose I might also get angry if a partner of mine hid their encounters with someone else, but this, to my knowledge, has not happened.

I also discovered BDSM, and that I am a Dom. I was always generous in bed, but BDSM allows me to optimize this generosity.

Then I realized that I’m autistic. The signs were present from infancy, but everybody treated me as neurotypical, so I thought that I was neurotypical. My ex-wife has ADHD, but we never discussed neurodivergence in our household. We both imagined that the other perceived the world in the same way we did. This is woefully incorrect, but we didn’t know any better.

I also realized that I’m nonbinary. The surest way to generate dysphoria in me is to insist that I should behave or not behave this or that way because I’m “a man.” At best, I’ll find the idea amusing. At worst, it will generate anger. At any rate, in retrospect, this is another element that caused friction between my ex-wife and me. She thought she had married “a man,” but she did not.

If my cancer had not happened, how much of this self-realization would have happened? I’m not sure. I was pretending to be a neurotypical man in a straight, monogamous, vanilla marriage. I think I could have gone on pretending for more years.

It’s been a wild ride, and I don’t think the ride is over just yet.

Five Years In Remission

I entered remission five years ago on February 11th 2021.

It’s been a wild ride, to say the least.

Ultimately, everybody’s journey through cancer is their own. If you’re a cancer survivor too, your journey is not my journey, and my journey is not your journey, no matter how similar they may be. Some people never make it through. A sobering thought.

A cancer diagnosis is often a gut punch, but my diagnosis came as a relief to me. Prior to it, I had been slowly dying for months, but I did not know why or have a plan to deal with this slow death. My PCNS lymphoma diagnosis not only told me why I was dying, but it provided me with a plan: first chemo and then a stem cell transplant.

So I underwent treatment. After two rounds of chemo, the tumor was gone from my brain. After five rounds, I was declared to be in remission. Its now been five years since I entered remission, and my latest MRI, done in January of this year, indicates that my brain is still free from cancer. If I had gotten this disease 35 years ago, I would not have been so lucky. I would have died, pure and simple. Medicine has advanced.

After the chemo, I had a stem cell transplant. They extracted stem cells from my body, kept them in storage, destroyed my immune system, and finally they reinjected my stem cells so that I could rebuild my immune system. My entire treatment happened at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet, I never caught this disease.

It’s been a wild ride, I tell you!

My cancer was not the cause of my divorce, but it was a catalyst. My ex-wife and I had already been seeing a marriage counselor a good two years before my cancer showed up. After my treatment, I just did not see myself enduring through this marriage if nothing changed. I tried to change things, but it was in vain. So my ex-wife and I divorced. It is not what I would have wanted, but it was the way forward.

As we were discussing the divorce, I figured that there was no longer any reason for me to hide from the world the fact that I’m not straight, but pansexual. I knew since my teenage years that I wasn’t straight, and even told my wife before we got married that I was bisexual. That’s the only term that I knew at the time, but I prefer to call myself pansexual. Gender or its absence is just no obstacle when it comes to my desire to get intimate with someone else.

Besides being pansexual, I’m also polyamorous. Provided that I’m kept aware of my partners’ intimate encounters with other people, I don’t get jealous if they have those encounters. What gets to me is if I feel neglect. I suppose I might also get angry if a partner of mine hid their encounters with someone else, but this, to my knowledge, has not happened.

I also discovered BDSM, and that I am a Dom. I was always generous in bed, but BDSM allows me to optimize this generosity.

Then I realized that I’m autistic. The signs were present from infancy, but everybody treated me as neurotypical, so I thought that I was neurotypical. My ex-wife has ADHD, but we never discussed neurodivergence in our household. We both imagined that the other perceived the world in the same way we did. This is woefully incorrect, but we didn’t know any better.

I also realized that I’m nonbinary. The surest way to generate dysphoria in me is to insist that I should behave or not behave this or that way because I’m “a man.” At best, I’ll find the idea amusing. At worst, it will generate anger. At any rate, in retrospect, this is another element that caused friction between my ex-wife and me. She thought she had married “a man,” but she did not.

If my cancer had not happened, how much of this self-realization would have happened? I’m not sure. I was pretending to be a neurotypical man in a straight, monogamous, vanilla marriage. I think I could have gone on pretending for more years.

It’s been a wild ride, and I don’t think the ride is over just yet.

Five Years In Remission

I entered remission five years ago on February 11th 2021.

It’s been a wild ride, to say the least.

Ultimately, everybody’s journey through cancer is their own. If you’re a cancer survivor too, your journey is not my journey, and my journey is not your journey, no matter how similar they may be. Some people never make it through. A sobering thought.

A cancer diagnosis is often a gut punch, but my diagnosis came as a relief to me. Prior to it, I had been slowly dying for months, but I did not know why or have a plan to deal with this slow death. My PCNS lymphoma diagnosis not only told me why I was dying, but it provided me with a plan: first chemo and then a stem cell transplant.

So I underwent treatment. After two rounds of chemo, the tumor was gone from my brain. After five rounds, I was declared to be in remission. Its now been five years since I entered remission, and my latest MRI, done in January of this year, indicates that my brain is still free from cancer. If I had gotten this disease 35 years ago, I would not have been so lucky. I would have died, pure and simple. Medicine has advanced.

After the chemo, I had a stem cell transplant. They extracted stem cells from my body, kept them in storage, destroyed my immune system, and finally they reinjected my stem cells so that I could rebuild my immune system. My entire treatment happened at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet, I never caught this disease.

It’s been a wild ride, I tell you!

My cancer was not the cause of my divorce, but it was a catalyst. My ex-wife and I had already been seeing a marriage counselor a good two years before my cancer showed up. After my treatment, I just did not see myself enduring through this marriage if nothing changed. I tried to change things, but it was in vain. So my ex-wife and I divorced. It is not what I would have wanted, but it was the way forward.

As we were discussing the divorce, I figured that there was no longer any reason for me to hide from the world the fact that I’m not straight, but pansexual. I knew since my teenage years that I wasn’t straight, and even told my wife before we got married that I was bisexual. That’s the only term that I knew at the time, but I prefer to call myself pansexual. Gender or its absence is just no obstacle when it comes to my desire to get intimate with someone else.

Besides being pansexual, I’m also polyamorous. Provided that I’m kept aware of my partners’ intimate encounters with other people, I don’t get jealous if they have those encounters. What gets to me is if I feel neglect. I suppose I might also get angry if a partner of mine hid their encounters with someone else, but this, to my knowledge, has not happened.

I also discovered BDSM, and that I am a Dom. I was always generous in bed, but BDSM allows me to optimize this generosity.

Then I realized that I’m autistic. The signs were present from infancy, but everybody treated me as neurotypical, so I thought that I was neurotypical. My ex-wife has ADHD, but we never discussed neurodivergence in our household. We both imagined that the other perceived the world in the same way we did. This is woefully incorrect, but we didn’t know any better.

I also realized that I’m nonbinary. The surest way to generate dysphoria in me is to insist that I should behave or not behave this or that way because I’m “a man.” At best, I’ll find the idea amusing. At worst, it will generate anger. At any rate, in retrospect, this is another element that caused friction between my ex-wife and me. She thought she had married “a man,” but she did not.

If my cancer had not happened, how much of this self-realization would have happened? I’m not sure. I was pretending to be a neurotypical man in a straight, monogamous, vanilla marriage. I think I could have gone on pretending for more years.

It’s been a wild ride, and I don’t think the ride is over just yet.

Five Years In Remission

I entered remission five years ago on February 11th 2021.

It’s been a wild ride, to say the least.

Ultimately, everybody’s journey through cancer is their own. If you’re a cancer survivor too, your journey is not my journey, and my journey is not your journey, no matter how similar they may be. Some people never make it through. A sobering thought.

A cancer diagnosis is often a gut punch, but my diagnosis came as a relief to me. Prior to it, I had been slowly dying for months, but I did not know why or have a plan to deal with this slow death. My PCNS lymphoma diagnosis not only told me why I was dying, but it provided me with a plan: first chemo and then a stem cell transplant.

So I underwent treatment. After two rounds of chemo, the tumor was gone from my brain. After five rounds, I was declared to be in remission. Its now been five years since I entered remission, and my latest MRI, done in January of this year, indicates that my brain is still free from cancer. If I had gotten this disease 35 years ago, I would not have been so lucky. I would have died, pure and simple. Medicine has advanced.

After the chemo, I had a stem cell transplant. They extracted stem cells from my body, kept them in storage, destroyed my immune system, and finally they reinjected my stem cells so that I could rebuild my immune system. My entire treatment happened at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet, I never caught this disease.

It’s been a wild ride, I tell you!

My cancer was not the cause of my divorce, but it was a catalyst. My ex-wife and I had already been seeing a marriage counselor a good two years before my cancer showed up. After my treatment, I just did not see myself enduring through this marriage if nothing changed. I tried to change things, but it was in vain. So my ex-wife and I divorced. It is not what I would have wanted, but it was the way forward.

As we were discussing the divorce, I figured that there was no longer any reason for me to hide from the world the fact that I’m not straight, but pansexual. I knew since my teenage years that I wasn’t straight, and even told my wife before we got married that I was bisexual. That’s the only term that I knew at the time, but I prefer to call myself pansexual. Gender or its absence is just no obstacle when it comes to my desire to get intimate with someone else.

Besides being pansexual, I’m also polyamorous. Provided that I’m kept aware of my partners’ intimate encounters with other people, I don’t get jealous if they have those encounters. What gets to me is if I feel neglect. I suppose I might also get angry if a partner of mine hid their encounters with someone else, but this, to my knowledge, has not happened.

I also discovered BDSM, and that I am a Dom. I was always generous in bed, but BDSM allows me to optimize this generosity.

Then I realized that I’m autistic. The signs were present from infancy, but everybody treated me as neurotypical, so I thought that I was neurotypical. My ex-wife has ADHD, but we never discussed neurodivergence in our household. We both imagined that the other perceived the world in the same way we did. This is woefully incorrect, but we didn’t know any better.

I also realized that I’m nonbinary. The surest way to generate dysphoria in me is to insist that I should behave or not behave this or that way because I’m “a man.” At best, I’ll find the idea amusing. At worst, it will generate anger. At any rate, in retrospect, this is another element that caused friction between my ex-wife and me. She thought she had married “a man,” but she did not.

If my cancer had not happened, how much of this self-realization would have happened? I’m not sure. I was pretending to be a neurotypical man in a straight, monogamous, vanilla marriage. I think I could have gone on pretending for more years.

It’s been a wild ride, and I don’t think the ride is over just yet.

Five Years In Remission

I entered remission five years ago on February 11th 2021.

It’s been a wild ride, to say the least.

Ultimately, everybody’s journey through cancer is their own. If you’re a cancer survivor too, your journey is not my journey, and my journey is not your journey, no matter how similar they may be. Some people never make it through. A sobering thought.

A cancer diagnosis is often a gut punch, but my diagnosis came as a relief to me. Prior to it, I had been slowly dying for months, but I did not know why or have a plan to deal with this slow death. My PCNS lymphoma diagnosis not only told me why I was dying, but it provided me with a plan: first chemo and then a stem cell transplant.

So I underwent treatment. After two rounds of chemo, the tumor was gone from my brain. After five rounds, I was declared to be in remission. Its now been five years since I entered remission, and my latest MRI, done in January of this year, indicates that my brain is still free from cancer. If I had gotten this disease 35 years ago, I would not have been so lucky. I would have died, pure and simple. Medicine has advanced.

After the chemo, I had a stem cell transplant. They extracted stem cells from my body, kept them in storage, destroyed my immune system, and finally they reinjected my stem cells so that I could rebuild my immune system. My entire treatment happened at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet, I never caught this disease.

It’s been a wild ride, I tell you!

My cancer was not the cause of my divorce, but it was a catalyst. My ex-wife and I had already been seeing a marriage counselor a good two years before my cancer showed up. After my treatment, I just did not see myself enduring through this marriage if nothing changed. I tried to change things, but it was in vain. So my ex-wife and I divorced. It is not what I would have wanted, but it was the way forward.

As we were discussing the divorce, I figured that there was no longer any reason for me to hide from the world the fact that I’m not straight, but pansexual. I knew since my teenage years that I wasn’t straight, and even told my wife before we got married that I was bisexual. That’s the only term that I knew at the time, but I prefer to call myself pansexual. Gender or its absence is just no obstacle when it comes to my desire to get intimate with someone else.

Besides being pansexual, I’m also polyamorous. Provided that I’m kept aware of my partners’ intimate encounters with other people, I don’t get jealous if they have those encounters. What gets to me is if I feel neglect. I suppose I might also get angry if a partner of mine hid their encounters with someone else, but this, to my knowledge, has not happened.

I also discovered BDSM, and that I am a Dom. I was always generous in bed, but BDSM allows me to optimize this generosity.

Then I realized that I’m autistic. The signs were present from infancy, but everybody treated me as neurotypical, so I thought that I was neurotypical. My ex-wife has ADHD, but we never discussed neurodivergence in our household. We both imagined that the other perceived the world in the same way we did. This is woefully incorrect, but we didn’t know any better.

I also realized that I’m nonbinary. The surest way to generate dysphoria in me is to insist that I should behave or not behave this or that way because I’m “a man.” At best, I’ll find the idea amusing. At worst, it will generate anger. At any rate, in retrospect, this is another element that caused friction between my ex-wife and me. She thought she had married “a man,” but she did not.

If my cancer had not happened, how much of this self-realization would have happened? I’m not sure. I was pretending to be a neurotypical man in a straight, monogamous, vanilla marriage. I think I could have gone on pretending for more years.

It’s been a wild ride, and I don’t think the ride is over just yet.

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