For context- the only time I remember hospital power going down globally was when the whole Eastern Seaboard went down in 2002. I was on the non medical campus, but I was able to go and get food and air conditioning at the hospital.

Fuck cancer indeed, askye. I’m sorry about your aunt’s partner, and I hope he and your aunt will still be able to do some of the things they planned.

My Aunt J's partner (also J) was just diagnosed with prostate cancer. It's spread to his bones.

askye, I have some experience with that. If they want a sounding board, give them my email address.

If his bone mets aren't painful, and if he doesn't have any mets in his marrow or viscera, a trip to Italy in the near future could be very do-able. His biggest risk on the trip might be osteoporosis and breaking a hip.

At his age, his doctors might be reluctant to try chemo. It can be very hard on the immune system.

Some points I often have to make to people new to stage IV cancer:

• You get no extra credit for suffering pain.
  
• There are a lot of very effective palliative care treatments to reduce pain and support quality of life.
  
• Palliative care is not the same as hospice care.

The hospital that I work adjacent to and the entire campus had an electricity outage today! All the backup power went on, but things went out momentarily even in places like the OR. Right after our time clock system was out momentarily. Right after I spent half the day trying to access other resources. I don’t want to say I am paranoid, but are we just hacked. We have so many third party integrations with things…

Oh yeah there is definitely something up. Same thing happened at UCSF and at Hopkins in the last couple of months.

Thanks dcp. I'll let them know. He won't be doing chemo. His wife passed away from breast cancer and after watching her experience he decided he wouldn't do chemo if he ever got cancer.

Actually he and my aunt had a big conversation about their relationship and what would happen if one of them got very sick (he is about 10 years older than her) and his kids will be taking on a lot of caregiving when it comes to that. My aunt has spent most of her adult life as a caregiver and her partner didn't want her to take that on again.

That sounds like they are well prepared, askye, but I’m sorry they have to go through it

And that’s certainly sus, Sophia!

Oh, Karl, that's very kind!

I have to make an appointment with someone I guess.

Today I was all excited because I thought we would be able to give my incoming hire a start date -- and instead I got an email indicating that all new hires are on hold and in order to get a waiver you have to go all the way to S1. Which is the former gov of SD who killed a puppy.

... I cannot even.

So instead I'm watching John Oliver and I ate a large piece of Guinness chocolate cake that my sister left for me.

Oh, ugh, I’m sorry. John Oliver and Guinness cake sounds good