Weekend Photos - May 2025

[Mitch]

Liquid radiation...never heard of that but it sounds awful.

Wonder if that's what I had a couple of weeks back. Had some breathing and dizziness problems and saw my VA doctor and nurse took my blood pressure. Layin' down, 120/80, sitting up, 145/110, and standing; she pumped by arm 4 times and let off and she says "I don't hear anything". I couldn't hear my heart in my ears either! Got home and got a call to report to the Butler VA hospital for a chest x-ray and a ZIO test module, then 2 days appointments at the VA hospital in Pittsburgh to report to Nuclear Medicine. Sounded ominous to me, but they pump some nuke stuff into the bloodstream and do a CT scan, then the same thing the next day, and then they compare the two scans. Then back to the VA outpatient care at Kittanning for a conference zoom call with a heart specialist at the the Butler VA hospital, who tells me I'm fine. When they told me Nuclear Medicine, I was figurin' the big C, but the tests were just using dope to simulate a stress test. I was a bit apprehensive, at first.

[ScaleCraft]

they pumped radioactive stuff in me Thursday for the PET scan. This is different. Heavy dose in my port, isolate, next day back for a specialized scan to see if it's going where it's supposed to.
Times six.
Special room, anti-c gear, protocols!

Half life concerns (know all about that from Nuke Sub days), some folks on the forums buy Geiger Counters off Spamazon to make sure they are "safe".

I can park my flashlights until next year because I will glow in the dark!

[webenda]

Liquid radiation...never heard of that but it sounds awful. Hopefully it's better than straight up chemo. I would say something like "I feel for ya", but that would ring hollow as I can't even imagine the grinder you've been through. Hopefully this next regimen provides some encouraging results.

I hope so too.

Thank you for keeping us updated, Dave. I feel for you.

Pluvictos is a liquid containing Lutetium-177 particles.
Lutetium-177 is a radioactive isotope produced by irradiating yttrium-176 or lutetium-176. It has a half-life of 6.7 days.
At high doses, radiation therapy kills cancer cells or slows their growth by damaging their DNA. Cancer cells whose DNA is damaged beyond repair stop dividing or die. When the damaged cells die, they are broken down and removed by the body.

Radiation therapy does not kill cancer cells right away. It takes days or weeks of treatment before DNA is damaged enough for cancer cells to die. Then, cancer cells keep dying for weeks or months after radiation therapy ends.

Yes, radiation therapy can damage healthy cells in addition to cancer cells, but normal cells typically have a better ability to repair themselves. The goal of radiation therapy is to target and kill cancer cells while minimizing harm to surrounding healthy tissue, and advances in radiation technology have improved the precision of this process.

Source: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/tre ... 0injection.

[G3750]

George, your slag car looks appropriately well-worn to me. I've never seen a real one, but I suspect they look pretty similar.

Didn't someone make a slag car with a glowing load of muck in the bowl? Maybe I'm dreaming that...

Yes, Lionel makes cars with a glowing or smoldering load in them. These cars will have removable lighted loads. The idea is to take them over to the slag dump, pull their loads, and run the dump animation (I'm working on that - involves an Arduino).

George

[ScaleCraft]

Yeah, we knew Lutetium 177. Nasty shxt. The Docetaxel has a side effect of aging you 10-13 YEARS. I am 76 on Tuesday, I look like late 80's, and feel like it.
I have told my oncologist repeatedly "I am dying, and it's the chemo that's killing me!"

Liquid radiation...never heard of that but it sounds awful. Hopefully it's better than straight up chemo. I would say something like "I feel for ya", but that would ring hollow as I can't even imagine the grinder you've been through. Hopefully this next regimen provides some encouraging results.

I hope so too.

Thank you for keeping us updated, Dave. I feel for you.

Pluvictos is a liquid containing Lutetium-177 particles.
Lutetium-177 is a radioactive isotope produced by irradiating yttrium-176 or lutetium-176. It has a half-life of 6.7 days.
At high doses, radiation therapy kills cancer cells or slows their growth by damaging their DNA. Cancer cells whose DNA is damaged beyond repair stop dividing or die. When the damaged cells die, they are broken down and removed by the body.

Radiation therapy does not kill cancer cells right away. It takes days or weeks of treatment before DNA is damaged enough for cancer cells to die. Then, cancer cells keep dying for weeks or months after radiation therapy ends.

Yes, radiation therapy can damage healthy cells in addition to cancer cells, but normal cells typically have a better ability to repair themselves. The goal of radiation therapy is to target and kill cancer cells while minimizing harm to surrounding healthy tissue, and advances in radiation technology have improved the precision of this process.

Source: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/tre ... 0injection.

[webenda]

Yeah, we knew Lutetium 177. Nasty shxt. The Docetaxel has a side effect of aging you 10-13 YEARS. I am 76 on Tuesday, I look like late 80's, and feel like it.
I have told my oncologist repeatedly "I am dying, and it's the chemo that's killing me!"

I am 83, probably look 93 from living in the Sonoran Desert for 50 years.
I researched Lutetium 177 because I did not know what Liquid Radiation was.
Now, anyone else who was curious can read about it.

NOTE: Lutetium is not the only Liquid Radiation. Twice, I have had technetium-99m sestamibi put into my veins during a chemical stress test (maybe what Mitch had.)

Mitch, I am happy to see you back.