Back to episode — Episode 2989 CWSA 10/15/25
Context —
nparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it's going to happen right now. Go. So good. So good. All right, I'm going to give you a reframe from my book *Reframe Your Brain*, which I have not yet selected, but they're all so good that it won't be hard. Here's one. The usual frame is that you deserve to be treated we…
← Previous segment →on't, as long as it's a good thing, it will cheer you up. So stop thinking about what people can do for you. Think about what you can do for other people and watch the magic happen.
All right, I got to see your comments here.
Let me give you a little update on my health situation. Normally I wouldn't do that, but since you're all part of the ride and you're wondering if I'm going to conk out any minute. So here's the current plan. Current plan goes like this. On Friday I'll get a scan that's a special scan, PSMA, that will tell me if I can be qualified for this new cancer drug called Pluvicto by Novartis. And so on Friday I get scanned and then my doctor will look at the scan and see if the nuclear juice lights up the tumors. Then they know that the Pluvicto can reach the tumors.
So you don't automatically get it because you want it and you don't automatically get it because your doctor thinks it's a good idea. You have to go through a process to qualify to be one of the people who can get it. Probably because it's expensive. There's something on my desk talking. I don't know what it is. I don't have any devices that should be talking to me now, but I'm hearing some voices. I hope that's not in my head.
Anyway, so the process is I take the scan, my doctor looks at it, then he has to submit it to a board of people that only meet every two weeks specifically to decide who gets this limited drug and who doesn't. It's very expensive. I assume that's why they do it because it costs so much. If they say yes, that will take me a couple of weeks before I get the yes. Then I also have to schedule the actual treatments of which there would be half a dozen. So we might be a month away from me getting that into my veins.
And my challenge is to stay alive until then. One of the exciting things about having late-stage cancer is you don't really know how long you're going to
Context —
last, right? I bought a little extra time with the testosterone blockers, but they fail after a while. Predictably, they fail. So I'm in that failure range where things are getting much worse, but my solution is getting closer and closer. No, it's not a solution. It's a chance of a solution. Maybe a good solid 30% chance it buys me some meaningful extra time, but we're only talking months. We're o…
Next segment → →