Cancer Selfies

Tuesday September 20, 2022

Good days are possible with chemo

Cycle 1 Day 6

Even when you're sick with a potentially terminal illness, some days are just days. I did hobbies today. I played video games. I listened to podcasts without skipping around to only get light subject matter. I got some okay chip truck fries and baked them in a convection oven twice to make excellent chip truxk fries. I fired up my 3D printer for the first time since I was in trade school to make a joke at my own expense. I finally, one year later, finished modifying a Value Village tripod and took not great (but lots of fun) night photos.

Some days are just normal. They're rare. I treasure them.

A man with long green hair and no beard holds a plastic coin with text "understatement gold medal"

"UNDERSTATEMENT Gold Medal" (actually made of yellow PLA) in commemoration of me giving cancer a 0/10 rating

A man with long green hair and no beard stands on a parking lot at night, the photo has motion blur"

I didn't take many photos, so you get this one of me figuring out how long it records

A man with long green hair and no beard stands in front of some decorative trees, the photo has motion blur"

My hair is extremely bush here

A man with long green hair and no beard sits at a picnic table on a beach with water in the background"

I love this photo ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

A man with long green hair and no beard sits on a rock at the Balm Beach breakwater"

I'm a ghoooost (I misjudged the time again but also there was a car)

From the comments

James Petrosky: This is from 2020 but the GoPro software is hinky and uploaded it again and it's a really good photo of Thomasin and I so why not share it again ❤️ A man with 8cm long dark hair sits on a computer chair, holding an orange cat like a baby"

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