In an August 2023 post about regrets,
https://jakeseliger.com/2023/08/12/regrets/, his last regret is:
* Not looking into that thing on my tongue in July 2022, when I first noticed it, but that is very specific to me and probably not generalizable.
In
https://jakeseliger.com/2024/05/16/the-financial-costs-of-he..., he mentions
"...I got a partial glossectomy in Oct. 2022. Mine had some high-risk features, but I was assured that, with radiation therapy, it wouldn’t recur (Bess recalls the exact words being, “Don’t worry, this won’t be what kills you”). ... In retrospect, however, I obviously should’ve been given chemo with the radiation, but at the time I was pleased to not need chemo, and I foolishly didn’t look deeper into the data on recurrence—which is common for HNSCC—and I didn’t seek second opinions. Some of those second opinions might’ve said: “Get the chemotherapy."
Followed by radiation treatments, mentioned in
https://jakeseliger.com/2023/11/14/the-more-things-go-wrong-...He posted about his followup investigation and the treatment of his tongue one year after the treatment - https://jakeseliger.com/2024/05/25/the-one-year-anniversary-...
"By July 21, less than two months later, another six to eight tumors had grown. If I’d known how things would shake out, I likely would’ve pivoted to chemo and clinical trials the moment the surgical biopsy came back. But I didn’t and couldn’t."
His first public announcement of his cancer -
https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/22/i-am-dying-of-squamous-ce...Followed by https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/23/how-do-we-evaluate-our-li...
From his wife's perspective: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/24/what-its-like-to-be-marri...
His wife had several posts about their search for an appropriate trial for his cancer and how they dealt with his cancer.
His outlook in May 2024: "The likelihood of me living to see another anniversary is low—probably under 20%—but not 0%."
He posted about his followup investigation and the treatment of his tongue one year after the treatment - https://jakeseliger.com/2024/05/25/the-one-year-anniversary-...
His first public announcement of his cancer - https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/22/i-am-dying-of-squamous-ce...Followed by https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/23/how-do-we-evaluate-our-li...
From his wife's perspective: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/24/what-its-like-to-be-marri...
His wife had several posts about their search for an appropriate trial for his cancer and how they dealt with his cancer.
His outlook in May 2024: "The likelihood of me living to see another anniversary is low—probably under 20%—but not 0%."