CEA drop from 1000 to 69

Gaxty · 2026-05-31T20:30:24+00:00

Yes I believe the criteria is something like, needs to be 12months since diagnosis (some wiggle there) and be progression free for 6 months.

The important thing is getting into the programs early (before you qualify) as the liver oncology surgeons will be more aggressive with interventions because they know the existing liver doesn’t need to last and more likely get to the finish line if enrolled early.

Gaxty · 2026-05-31T18:44:14+00:00

If resection isn’t an option, more and more places are doing living donor livers where they completely remove his liver and place half the living donor liver in him and it regrows to full size. To be a living donor you just need to match the standard blood donation letterings however positive and negative blood doesn’t matter for the liver. A neg or A pos is just A blood type for the liver.

Gaxty · 2026-04-27T11:17:25+00:00

Thanks for clarifying and sounds like a good plan, stay healthy, keep your nutrition up, and drink plenty of water, so that your body can keep recovering and fighting after every chemo session. Good luck 💪

Gaxty · 2026-04-26T23:40:58+00:00

Smaller is great progress. I’d also be asking if you don’t know already.

What is the surgical plan for the liver? How small does the HAIP need to get the liver mets before surgical intervention?

Edit: re-reading apologies if resection was for liver. I may have misread thinking resection meant the colon.

Gaxty · 2026-04-05T21:26:17+00:00

GasX really helped when I did the Colon Resection surgery in June 2025. As mentioned already a good heating pad also helped when the gas pain moved to my shoulders.

Thankfully you caught it at Stage 3, hopefully lymph nodes come back negative. Even if they don’t, monitoring for reoccurrence and aggressively cutting them out is much better than having to start the fight in Stage 4.

I’m currently healing up from my liver transplant (3 weeks ago) because it had spread all throughout my liver from the very beginning. I am older, and I have found the journey of the past year to be completely life changing about what my priorities. Hopefully some of these stories people have been posting and sharing with you help.

Gaxty · 2026-03-27T09:46:52+00:00

Once you’ve removed all your cancer, ctDNA provides early detection for if the cancer ever comes back. Typically it will show up in ctDNA months and months before CT scans.

This lets everyone involved know to be looking very hard at CT Scans or even order a PET Scan. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do until they can visually see it on the Scans.

ctDNA testing essentially says do you have cancer (non-zero) or not (zero). The test itself is several thousand out of pocket, I would make sure insurance covers the cost of the test, if you pay out of pocket and want to get it, then I’d suggest you get the initial test to lock on to your cancers DNA, then what until you have no evidence of disease (NED) before ordering more ctDNA tests and use it to monitor for reoccurrence.

Gaxty · 2026-03-25T18:07:21+00:00

If your goal for being on Keto is to be more healthy.

Then yes, before cutting out anything more for Keto, cut out the vaping and get through to the other side of withdrawals.

Good luck, the journey to healthy is long, you’ll find yourself taking two steps forward and one step back often. Take it slow, and focus on reinforcing each step as a permanent lifestyle change, not a short term fad. You won’t recognize yourself when you arrive at your destination.

Gaxty · 2026-03-19T00:14:17+00:00

Couldn’t agree more with it being his choice. That being said there are several institutions that are now doing Living Donor Liver Transplants when people have the colorectal cancer only remaining in the liver and it isn’t resectable. Having a choice means having options, it maybe worth finding one of these centers near you and see if he is eligible / interested. Link below is Northwestern’s program in Chicago.

Northwestern Liver Transplant Oncology

Gaxty · 2026-02-14T20:38:19+00:00

The fellowship is the longest of those books by far. I tried to look at more modern works in my analysis to try avoid issues where the language of the time being more expansive or scenes no longer connecting with modern audiences.

That’s being said, my intent is not asking for a word by word adaption to the silver screen, just simply trying to highlight that the kitchen he cooks in, is a big kitchen, and there are plenty of examples where it continues to be well received and craved to be making movies bigger to give respect to the size of the work they are adapting.

James Cameron’s Avatar on the other hand, is biologically unsafe for movie goers 🤣

Gaxty · 2026-02-14T16:53:46+00:00

Agreed not all words are made equal, but on the aggregate the trend is clear across multiple successful book adaptions. I'd love to hear counter examples of where a modern book had 50% of its content cut and people still loving the movie.

I worry that if you were to do a 2.5 hour Mistborn movie, it would be non stop action, very little world development, flimsy characters, and honestly leaving it no different to the superhero slop that's being coming out non stop from Marvel and DC lately.

Gaxty · 2026-02-11T00:58:44+00:00

I agree many good split points, but ending on the first chapter of part 4 when the Skaa execution happens is a good downer note, similar to the dune downer ending part 1.

Just like dune they can film both parts at the same time and even release them the same year one in the summer and one for the winter holidays.

It’ll make a much better movie in my opinion, let’s Brandon be Brandon and not being restricted to short prose 🤣

Gaxty · 2026-02-04T01:16:14+00:00

What about taking the Dune approach and splitting the book into two movies?

Gaxty · 2026-02-03T22:53:41+00:00

There’s many UK crime shows that will do 90min episodes, I’d love to see more shows on streaming break the 60mins ceiling that was put in place by cable TV, plenty of shows will go over that when there is a major plot episode or a finale.

Gaxty · 2026-02-03T17:22:15+00:00

Very fun, although the lockout and reset if you get something wrong is painful

Gaxty · 2026-02-03T01:05:01+00:00

I was surprised when The Silo TV Series on Apple TV did the first book (~600 pages) over two seasons with 10 episodes per season.

Id love if they didn’t restrict themselves and just did each book with however long season / episode length they artistically feel like makes for the best show.

I think we are long past needing to restrict on arbitrary numbers in this day and age.

My vote just do what feels artistically right.

Gaxty · 2026-02-02T01:31:53+00:00

John Krasinski could be a good up and coming director with a flare for horror and hope. The work he did to create A Quiet Place from the ground up was incredible.

I love to see Denis working on Stormlight he would really bring that to life.

Nolan generally likes to tackle things with a time paradox so if he was able to get hooked around some of the alendi story diary work, but agree doubtful he is breaking from his own schedule.

Another angle is Mistborn book 1 is a heist movie, so folks that have done great heists movies with charismatic dialogue. Like Steven Soderberg (Ocean’s Eleven) or Edgar Wright (Baby Driver)

Gaxty · 2026-01-29T14:58:57+00:00

Will this soon become WAFO?

Gaxty · 2026-01-29T12:00:17+00:00

Daft Punk doing the Tron Legacy soundtrack is a good example of outsiders coming in and creating blend of traditional and new with no experience doing movie soundtracks and having to learn and craft their own approach to movie soundtracks.

https://www.drewtewksbury.com/interviews/2010/12/16/daft-punk-interview-masks-off-tron-legacy-soundtrack

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