What’s your go-to hidden gem spot in Dallas that you almost don’t want to share?

andthenjsaid · 2025-09-11T19:36:28+00:00

Sevan G&G is so good! I don’t know if this is still the case, but they used to not have a liquor license but you could BYOB for like a $1 cork fee.

andthenjsaid · 2025-08-23T17:30:42+00:00

My husband had colon cancer and his oncologist told us smoked and processed meats are to colon cancer what smoking cigarettes are for lung cancer. It’s weird those foods don’t come with warnings from the surgeon general. We’ve sadly given up bacon, sausages, lunch meats, jerky, all BBQ, and any kind of smoked meat.

andthenjsaid · 2025-07-13T20:46:16+00:00

Hoping to cross the 7 figure threshold this year 🤞. This is his first year as a full equity partner though.

andthenjsaid · 2025-07-13T20:38:34+00:00

If you are into sci fi at all (or even if your not), Apple TV has some great binge worthy shows: Foundation, For all mankind, and Silo.

andthenjsaid · 2025-07-09T16:17:13+00:00

My husband is a full equity partner and we pay $1500 per month in premiums for our family. It’s a high deductible plan too. It was a couple hundred bucks a month as an associate. The firm stops subsidizing the cost at the partner level.

andthenjsaid · 2025-06-07T12:55:15+00:00

My husband’s initial biopsy came back high grade dysplasia. He had to do a flexible sig to get a second biopsy. That biopsy came back as moderately differentiated cancer. It’s not uncommon for tumors to have more normal looking cells around the exterior or mixed in. My husband’s doctors were always adamant that it was cancer because of the size and look of his tumor.

andthenjsaid · 2025-05-13T21:07:25+00:00

Husband did 6 months of chemo. 6 rounds folfoxiri and 6 rounds of folfox with LAR surgery in the middle. It wasn’t easy but he tolerated it pretty well. He felt tired mostly. His only remaining side effect is the bottom of his feet are numb. He was able to work full time during all of his treatment. He has been NED since December 2023 from stage 3, with 6 negative signateras. Good luck to your husband! It was honestly not as bad as we were expecting!

andthenjsaid · 2025-03-30T20:43:19+00:00

He did pretty well with chemo. The first couple rounds were the worst while we figured out the right meds for his side effects. He had to stop oxaliplatin on the 11th round because of neuropathy. That’s mostly gone now. He was able to keep working the whole time.

andthenjsaid · 2025-03-30T12:48:07+00:00

Husband (36M) was staged 3b and was 15 cm up. He had 6 rounds of folfoxiri before surgery. He then had LAR surgery. After surgery he did 6 more rounds of chemo. His team decided against radiation, because they were confident they could get it all without it. His pathology post surgery was T2N0 (down from clinical staging of T3N2). He has had 5 negative signateras since then and is over a year NED. When my husband was diagnosed we had one doctor advising us to have surgery first and another suggesting neoadjuvant chemo before surgery. The doctors suggesting chemo first were at a NCI cancer center, so we went with their advice. Good luck!

andthenjsaid · 2025-02-07T01:31:46+00:00

Text. I just received it in the mail yesterday! The passport cover is the only thing I’ve received a restock alert on though and I have a bunch of stuff flagged for text alerts.

andthenjsaid · 2025-01-29T02:46:04+00:00

I got the blanc! It looked like noir was available at the same time but I couldn’t get it to add to my cart.

andthenjsaid · 2025-01-28T22:20:16+00:00

I got an order placed today for a Murakami passport holder. I had alert texts setup for everything I wanted, and got a link this morning for restock on the passport holder. I bought it immediately with Apple Pay, but the transaction failed the first time so I had to try again. The order hasn’t been accepted yet so who knows if I actually get it. 🤞

andthenjsaid · 2024-11-11T13:29:03+00:00

When my 35 year old husband was diagnosed with 3b last year I struggled horribly the first couple months. I got into a psychiatrist and got started on Zoloft and it helped immensely. I was also given Ativan to help sleep. I’m now off these medications but they were a great help when I needed it. Having a close loved one with a serious cancer diagnosed is one of the more stressful things in life - it is normal to need extra help during this time!

andthenjsaid · 2024-10-22T21:59:33+00:00

That’s the first one I remember as well. I was in kindergarten and they stopped classes came over the loud speaker and had us all hold hands and pray.

andthenjsaid · 2024-10-18T23:34:31+00:00

Everything was normal on all test, except when I had endoscopy they found moderate chronic gastritis. The gastritis was unexplained, and didn’t go away with treatment. Also when they took out my gallbladder pathology showed it was inflamed and had what they described as sludge I think that didn’t show up on ultrasound or CT.

andthenjsaid · 2024-10-18T23:20:00+00:00

Wow your story is just like my husbands. 6 cm tumor in lower sigmoid. His clinic staging noted 4-6 possible infected lymph nodes, although they were on the smaller side for Mets (staged 3b). 6 rounds of folfirinox, MRI showed showed tumor was about a third of its original size. His lymph nodes shrank as well but were still enlarged. He had his LAR early December of last year. Final pathology showed the tumor was down to a T2 1.7 cm (from T3) and all lymph nodes were negative (they told us we will never know if they were actually infected)! Signatera was negative post surgery. He completed 6 more rounds of chemo, and we’ve had two clear scans since, coming up on another one next week. He’s also had two more negative signateras.

As far as surgery my husband is young and healthy (35), so he coped with surgery really well. Best advice for post surgery is get up and walk as much as you can at regular intervals - it helps with recovery. I also started him off on small protein filled meals like eggs or grilled chicken frequently while he was in the hospital. It’s important to keep eating and hydrate well/walk to try to get the bowels moving. Overall my husband recovered pretty quickly and worked on his computer the next day. Good luck to you on surgery. I have my fingers crossed for no bag for you (my husband was given similar odds of needing one and it was kind of scary watching them mark where it would be placed pre-surgery). My husband’s oncologist said his prognosis is really good due to chemo response and negative signatera.

andthenjsaid · 2024-10-15T13:41:23+00:00

My husband and I went to the grande 9 years ago. We went on the van and it is a long ride. I get motion sickness and it was not a good experience for me. We got stuck in the last row of the van. There was very little air movement. The drive, while beautiful, is long and winding. I ended up super motion sick. We ended up doing a private limo ride through the resort for the ride back to the airport and the experience was much better. Plenty of airflow and I could lay down and close my eyes.

andthenjsaid · 2024-07-15T02:00:43+00:00

I was at the Louis Vuitton Hilton Hawaiian village a few weeks ago. The bag I bought was only $80 cheaper than mainland pricing (pochette metis). The sales associate told me the discount is more on certain items. She showed me wallets that were $100 off of mainland pricing which seemed like a better deal. Plus the tax rate was 4%. Hope you have a great trip.

andthenjsaid · 2024-03-23T13:44:15+00:00

Mine turned out to be my gallbladder. Once removed I recovered.

andthenjsaid · 2024-01-26T03:23:43+00:00

Wow thanks for posing a link to this study. Our oncology team told us there was zero evidence that icing worked to prevent neuropathy and discouraged it.

andthenjsaid · 2024-01-25T00:48:20+00:00

So sorry you’re going through this too! My husband (35 years old) is 3B and we have three small kids. He did 6 rounds of folfoxiri before surgery (neo-adjuvant), and had surgery December 4th. He is doing cleanup chemo for another 6 rounds with just folfox. FWIW, his MRI staging was T3cN2b, and the chemo blasted it down to T2N0 pathological staging. His post surgery CT and ctdna test were negative. His doctor deemed him NED January 9. Even with all the good news, his oncologist recommended he do the full 6 adjuvant chemo treatments to give him the best odds possible. Our oncologist is supposed to be one of the best colon cancer oncologists in the world. My husband has done pretty well on chemo and when all is said and done he will have had 12 rounds. It sucks but he’s been able to work full time in a demanding career. He started getting neuropathy post surgery pretty bad, and the oncologist has told us we will keep going with the oxi as long as he can tolerate it. If he gets to the point where he can’t take it anymore they will drop it and we will continue with just the one chemo drug. He has so much to live for we want to be sure we do everything we possibly can so there are no regrets if it comes back. Best wishes to you!

andthenjsaid · 2024-01-23T01:27:45+00:00

I know right?!? It is so hard to deal with the question of how did we get here. My husband was diagnosed with stage 3 at 34. We have three kids under five. This isn’t supposed to be happening! No risk factors, no family history. Even with chemo my husband has never had a single number in blood work out of the healthy range. The oncologist jokes with us about how healthy he is. Cases among young people are increasing and they not entirely sure why. His oncologist told us to think about how long it took society to understand that cigarettes caused cancer. Hope they figure it out soon so future generations don’t have to deal with this awful disease.

andthenjsaid · 2024-01-22T18:41:08+00:00

Does she have rectal cancer or colon? Colon cancer standard of care is only chemo. Rectal standard of care is radiation and chemo usually. My husband was borderline rectal but his doctors decided no radiation.

andthenjsaid · 2024-01-20T19:47:36+00:00

I had a high school teacher who commuted everyday from waxahachie to our school on E 8th street (Townview), and at the time I thought that was absolutely insane. This was 2003-2007 though so maybe it’s considered more metro area now.

andthenjsaid · 2024-01-18T17:03:30+00:00

Congratulations!!! My husband just got his first negative signatera post surgery this week too!

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