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I’m either gonna karma us into a win or a MUCH needed loss. My money is on the latter 

I’m either gonna karma us into a win or a MUCH needed loss. My money is on the latter![]()
Battle of the Best Bad Songs
Silver & Black Attack came out in 1986. Now we know what stopped the dynasty.
First things first: I really hope you’re ok. Next thing: you’re suing a pizza company?Okay guys, game day!
I’ve been remiss in not posting. Yes, I have been very busy at work . . . timed nicely with the Raiders’ sucking and my fantasy team dealing with injuries and losses too. Just filed on Friday our opposition to Shakey’s Pizza’s motion for a preliminary injunction under 15 U.S.C. 1115(b) and our reply brief in support of our Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss. Both motions are scheduled to be heard at the same time. Case is not going to settle, so somebody’s going to be real disappointed. Fingers crossed.
But it’s more than that.
Tomorrow, I’m in Cedars-Sinai for my second of three surgeries. My first surgery was in September for a wide excision of a rare form of cancer of a sweat gland in a spot (right flank below my right breast, not the armpit or neck) not associated with this rare cancer (apparently a dermatologist can go an entire career without encountering it).
In staging that cancer (luckily the sentinel lymph-node biopsy was negative) the chest image spotted a nodule in my lung. The subsequent PET revealed it as likely cancerous, which a biopsy confirmed.
The PET also lit up my thyroid, and a biopsy revealed a larger mass of Hürthle cells, which they estimated as 40% likely cancerous (weird that science can’t be more certain at this stage). My surgery to remove that is in November.
I was basically diagnosed with 3 stage 1 cancers, the first leading to the discovery of the second, which led to the discovery of the third. Why?
All are in the same grid (I have blue dots on my chest) where I had 9 weeks of radiation therapy (before 9 months of chemotherapy when I relapsed 2 years later) after being diagnosed with stage 3 Hodgin’s Lymphoma back in 1986. My (younger) thoracic surgeon at UCLA who knew my now retired oncologist (who used to work in the same medical plaza) said I’m his first (stage 3) cancer survivor patient from the 1980’s (I was 21 when diagnosed and the treatments just started having good outcomes but were overkill compared to the radiation and chemotherapy they use now).
The prognosis is good (assuming the next two surgeries go as well as the first—meaning removal of the cancers and negative biopsies of the surrounding lymph nodes). The MRI, PET and Cat-Scans give us hope we have identified all the cancer.
My family physician originally missed the sweat gland cancer during my annual check up (as did my dermatologist). It was my wife’s dermatologist, who my wife had take a look at the small bump when I was just there for her visit, that properly diagnosed it. She took it out before we went to Europe in July and then biopsied the skin around it when we got back in August.
My family physician, who I’ve seen since I was at UCLA, made a morbid joke after I got diagnosed. Told me if it had spread, I’d already be dead.
My wife, unfortunately, looked up the cancer on the Internet (clear cell hydrodenocarcinoma) before the first surgery and before we spoke with our surgeon and family physician. It said I would be dead in 6 months. What the Internet did not say is that I would be dead in 6 months only if it had it spread.
It was a weird day being told after the first surgery (a) you are not going to die in 6 months but (b) you likely have lung and thyroid cancer we need to stage. Well, we celebrated that night at El Patron, and the waiter join in our celebration. He said, “I’ve never seen anyone so happy to have lung cancer.” Lol
It’s far better to have 3 stage 1 cancers treatable by surgeries than 1 stage 3 cancer or a stage 2 cancer that can’t be cured. That appears to be the situation (knock on wood).
Apparently, the warranty on my radiation therapy was only good for 35 years. Hopefully I’m good for another 35 years after these tune ups.
Go Raiders!
Okay guys, game day!
I’ve been remiss in not posting. Yes, I have been very busy at work . . . timed nicely with the Raiders’ sucking and my fantasy team dealing with injuries and losses too. Just filed on Friday our opposition to Shakey’s Pizza’s motion for a preliminary injunction under 15 U.S.C. 1115(b) and our reply brief in support of our Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss. Both motions are scheduled to be heard at the same time. Case is not going to settle, so somebody’s going to be real disappointed. Fingers crossed.
But it’s more than that.
Tomorrow, I’m in Cedars-Sinai for my second of three surgeries. My first surgery was in September for a wide excision of a rare form of cancer of a sweat gland in a spot (right flank below my right breast, not the armpit or neck) not associated with this rare cancer (apparently a dermatologist can go an entire career without encountering it).
In staging that cancer (luckily the sentinel lymph-node biopsy was negative) the chest image spotted a nodule in my lung. The subsequent PET revealed it as likely cancerous, which a biopsy confirmed.
The PET also lit up my thyroid, and a biopsy revealed a larger mass of Hürthle cells, which they estimated as 40% likely cancerous (weird that science can’t be more certain at this stage). My surgery to remove that is in November.
I was basically diagnosed with 3 stage 1 cancers, the first leading to the discovery of the second, which led to the discovery of the third. Why?
All are in the same grid (I have blue dots on my chest) where I had 9 weeks of radiation therapy (before 9 months of chemotherapy when I relapsed 2 years later) after being diagnosed with stage 3 Hodgin’s Lymphoma back in 1986. My (younger) thoracic surgeon at UCLA who knew my now retired oncologist (who used to work in the same medical plaza) said I’m his first (stage 3) cancer survivor patient from the 1980’s (I was 21 when diagnosed and the treatments just started having good outcomes but were overkill compared to the radiation and chemotherapy they use now).
The prognosis is good (assuming the next two surgeries go as well as the first—meaning removal of the cancers and negative biopsies of the surrounding lymph nodes). The MRI, PET and Cat-Scans give us hope we have identified all the cancer.
My family physician originally missed the sweat gland cancer during my annual check up (as did my dermatologist). It was my wife’s dermatologist, who my wife had take a look at the small bump when I was just there for her visit, that properly diagnosed it. She took it out before we went to Europe in July and then biopsied the skin around it when we got back in August.
My family physician, who I’ve seen since I was at UCLA, made a morbid joke after I got diagnosed. Told me if it had spread, I’d already be dead.
My wife, unfortunately, looked up the cancer on the Internet (clear cell hydrodenocarcinoma) before the first surgery and before we spoke with our surgeon and family physician. It said I would be dead in 6 months. What the Internet did not say is that I would be dead in 6 months only if it had it spread.
It was a weird day being told after the first surgery (a) you are not going to die in 6 months but (b) you likely have lung and thyroid cancer we need to stage. Well, we celebrated that night at El Patron, and the waiter join in our celebration. He said, “I’ve never seen anyone so happy to have lung cancer.” Lol
It’s far better to have 3 stage 1 cancers treatable by surgeries than 1 stage 3 cancer or a stage 2 cancer that can’t be cured. That appears to be the situation (knock on wood).
Apparently, the warranty on my radiation therapy was only good for 35 years. Hopefully I’m good for another 35 years after these tune ups.
Go Raiders!
No, our client, Potato Corner USA, got sued. Shakey’s Pizza acquired the international trademark rights for Potato Corner, a worldwide fast food franchise. We represent the U.S. franchisor. After Shakey’s Pizza allegedly purchased the U.S. trademarks, they gave us a notice that they were terminating the U.S. franchisor’s license to use their trademarks. After my partner told Shakey’s Pizza to fuck-off, Shakey’s Pizza sued us. That’s when my partner came to me and said, “Are we fucked”? I said, no, they bought a piece of paper. Our client has been Potato Corner USA for 15 years—the exclusive user in the U.S. Trademarks are not like patents or copyrights, where if you own the piece of paper (U.S. certificate of ownership) you win. Trademark rights are about customer goodwill in the relevant market (here the U.S). A trademark certificate is just evidence of ownership, which can be rebutted.First things first: I really hope you’re ok. Next thing: you’re suing a pizza company?
Dude, wow. You are a survivor. Sending healing thoughts your way.Okay guys, game day!
I’ve been remiss in not posting. Yes, I have been very busy at work . . . timed nicely with the Raiders’ sucking and my fantasy team dealing with injuries and losses too. Just filed on Friday our opposition to Shakey’s Pizza’s motion for a preliminary injunction under 15 U.S.C. 1115(b) and our reply brief in support of our Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss. Both motions are scheduled to be heard at the same time. Case is not going to settle, so somebody’s going to be real disappointed. Fingers crossed.
But it’s more than that.
Tomorrow, I’m in Cedars-Sinai for my second of three surgeries. My first surgery was in September for a wide excision of a rare form of cancer of a sweat gland in a spot (right flank below my right breast, not the armpit or neck) not associated with this rare cancer (apparently a dermatologist can go an entire career without encountering it).
In staging that cancer (luckily the sentinel lymph-node biopsy was negative) the chest image spotted a nodule in my lung. The subsequent PET revealed it as likely cancerous, which a biopsy confirmed.
The PET also lit up my thyroid, and a biopsy revealed a larger mass of Hürthle cells, which they estimated as 40% likely cancerous (weird that science can’t be more certain at this stage). My surgery to remove that is in November.
I was basically diagnosed with 3 stage 1 cancers, the first leading to the discovery of the second, which led to the discovery of the third. Why?
All are in the same grid (I have blue dots on my chest) where I had 9 weeks of radiation therapy (before 9 months of chemotherapy when I relapsed 2 years later) after being diagnosed with stage 3 Hodgin’s Lymphoma back in 1986. My (younger) thoracic surgeon at UCLA who knew my now retired oncologist (who used to work in the same medical plaza) said I’m his first (stage 3) cancer survivor patient from the 1980’s (I was 21 when diagnosed and the treatments just started having good outcomes but were overkill compared to the radiation and chemotherapy they use now).
The prognosis is good (assuming the next two surgeries go as well as the first—meaning removal of the cancers and negative biopsies of the surrounding lymph nodes). The MRI, PET and Cat-Scans give us hope we have identified all the cancer.
My family physician originally missed the sweat gland cancer during my annual check up (as did my dermatologist). It was my wife’s dermatologist, who my wife had take a look at the small bump when I was just there for her visit, that properly diagnosed it. She took it out before we went to Europe in July and then biopsied the skin around it when we got back in August.
My family physician, who I’ve seen since I was at UCLA, made a morbid joke after I got diagnosed. Told me if it had spread, I’d already be dead.
My wife, unfortunately, looked up the cancer on the Internet (clear cell hydrodenocarcinoma) before the first surgery and before we spoke with our surgeon and family physician. It said I would be dead in 6 months. What the Internet did not say is that I would be dead in 6 months only if it had it spread.
It was a weird day being told after the first surgery (a) you are not going to die in 6 months but (b) you likely have lung and thyroid cancer we need to stage. Well, we celebrated that night at El Patron, and the waiter join in our celebration. He said, “I’ve never seen anyone so happy to have lung cancer.” Lol
My doctors have all repeated that it is better to have 3 stage 1 cancers treatable by surgeries than 1 stage 3 cancer or a stage 2 cancer that, if it spreads, can’t be treated and is quickly fatal. That appears to be the situation (knock on wood). @Birdwell and I talked last month about each other’s situations.
Apparently, the warranty on my radiation therapy was only good for 35 years. Hopefully I’m good for another 35 years after these tune ups.
Go Raiders!