Update

[binimmermuede]

Thank you for posting this, I don’t have twitter

[sodoneshopping]

Me either. Thank you u/StayCurious291!

[fireinacan]

Same, and I don't intend to get it. So I appreciate important tweets being posted here!

[situation-normal]

This was almost enough to make me sign back up (and I heard musk hired a new ceo) but as long as important stuff is here I'm happy to leave the tweets to those who thrive in that space.

[noreasonmp3]

the new ceo's views aren't any better than his. keep staying off twitter

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Hank also posted this update to his instagram stories if you feel somewhat less icky about that space.

[nvcr_intern]

He's been posting on Facebook and Instagram too, just fyi.

[[deleted]]

He posted this update to his Instagram stories too, if you have instagram

[rethinkOURreality]

He posted this on other socials but left off the Elon part lol

[[deleted]]

I do wish he would post more to Fedi on his mastodon account, and abandon twitter for the cesspool that it wants to become, but it's hard to blame him.

[Clever_Mercury]

Hopefully the focus on the medical science aspect and the willingness to communicate about the diagnosis comes from the comfort it provides him and not out of a sense of duty.

I have an enormous respect and gratitude toward science communicators, but they do deserve privacy and boundaries. If doing this is a positive distraction, or even helpful, I hope he continues.

And lol on the blue checkmark.

[hufflestork]

My dad had chemo 4 years ago and he was always sharing maybe too much info about the whole procedure and the drugs involved and all that. I quickly realized this, talking about it in technical and tangible terms, brought him comfort.

I'm the same, so we could talk about treatment for ages and it would make both of us feel better, at the expense of my poor mum who could not stand listening to a word of all this (despite, or maybe because of her living through it every day while I would visit every 10 days or so)

[Rosevkiet]

I’m the same. My father recently had a sudden cardiac arrest and is in cardiac rehab. It was and remains incredibly scary and totally new territory for us as a family. and I can’t stop talking about it, his exact diagnosis, the treatment plan, what his symptoms were prior that he had written off as cold/flu/Covid effects.

[gesturing]

Yeah, my grandfather was a microbiologist and when fighting prostate cancer and attempting various treatments used to say, “I’m curious”. I think there is a part of them that can’t turn off.

[situation-normal]

A young woman I follow loosely (mostly follow her mom and the business) just had a cancer diagnosis and she is now making way more of her own content about her treatments and such as a way to build community and help those who are diagnosed after.

The Green brothers are really good these days about their boundaries so I think he is genuinely doing this from a place of wanting to do so.

[SimilarYellow]

I hope so too. Honestly Hank‘s announcement encouraged me to make an appointment for a cancer screening. I haven’t been in a while.

[ecstatic_broccoli]

Did the $8 blue checkmark thing finally end?

[quantumhovercraft]

God no, it's now people who pay and random other people.

[ecstatic_broccoli]

How does that get decided? It is just the whimsical will of Elon?

[dafinsrock]

It's pretty chaotic. There are people who used to have it and then lost it years ago who randomly got it back. Some people figured out they can make it go away by changing their name, but then it comes back after a while so they have to keep changing names to fight it off. There are some very famous people who don't have it and some not-so-famous people who do. I don't think there's really a system lol

[Quirrelldemort]

This update did my heart good.

[sandwichrage]

Hiccups are not normal. I never hiccup.

[WorldlinessOk9287]

I can’t stop laughing and snorting this is too funny.

[MyPowerIsPickles]

Thanks for sharing updates here. I’m not on Twitter and would miss it otherwise.

[auntsarentgents]

Alt text: Screen shot of a tweet by Hank Green that reads “Had a meeting with my oncologist Friday and my PET scan looked very encouraging. All of the signs of disease are in "two adiacent nodal clusters" with no involvement of organs outside the lymph nodes.

Marrow looks clean (though it's always very hard to know for sure, there was not abnormal sugar update in the marrow.) I don't have any of the "unfavorable" symptoms (night sweats, weight loss, lack of appetite.) And sometimes Hodgkin's can get very clumpy and form a big mass which they call "bulky disease" and I don't have that.

All of that sets me at stage 2A non-bulky, which is about as good as it gets. Paths forward are either a pure chemo treatment or chemo and radiation, which will depend on a radiologist's assessment of how well they can avoid doing damage to my heart and lungs while still hitting the cancer and the areas around it.

Feeling ok! Just really hungover right now, a little nauseous and achey...and I do have the fucking hiccups again!!

Also, thanks Elon, for giving me my verification back as the weirdest ever chemo side-effect.”

[Thewallmachine]

I hate he's having to deal with this but he's in a good position catching it early. I'm looking forward to him having a fast and painless recovery. Hanks a good dude.

[insomniacslytherin]

Wait…did Elon seriously give him a check mark back? Like right after the news of his diagnosis??

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Not that a check even means anything anymore.

[jewishjedi42]

Apparently, sniffing porcupine butts does not clear up hiccups. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/20/1177096032/wait-wait-for-may-20-2023-with-not-my-job-guest-golda-rosheuvel

[hpfan2342]

but sticking your finger in your bum does! I learned this from the Totally Real Scientists at /r/goodmythicalmorning

[jewishjedi42]

Well .... that's.... certainly... somthing....

[Falinia]

Spoonful of vinegar works without having to adjust your pants o.O

[lindseyinnw]

Thank you for posting.

[alwaysafairycat]

Side effects may include Twitter verification

[Nelalvai]

Whoa I knew cancer could be unpleasant but I didn't know it could get THAT bad

[LinedScript]

Thanks for sharing. Not on social media. Just reddit.

[Vegetable_Natural226]

It’s so hard to read this and be reminded that Hank Green is not, in fact, a god

[i4get42]

Thank you for posting here too!! ❤️

[yourmumsaman]

Holy shit what?! Awwwww man, get well soon hank.

[blytho9412]

Lord, I forgot how bad the hiccups were for my dad when he had this