i'm flying back to SF for what might be my last dental appointment ever. i started this treatment when i first landed in SF in aug 2024, so it's been a long time coming. i was told treatment would be 18 months. and that was on top of already 6 months of treatment in malaysia. so i have been looking forward to this day.

to get some work done, i went to Saluhall, which is a food hall right beside IKEA. the space is nice, but there were barely any people here. i have not tried the food, but i can foresee this place closing down just like the San Francisco Centre. the sad reality of these spaces in SF.

at night i had dinner with W at Hon's Wun Tun House. i had been craving clams since i last had them on a cold windy day in SF. below was our order:

• 酸辣汤 (Hot & Sour Soup)
• 咖喱鱼蛋（Curry FiShanghai Balls)
• 清酒煮大蚬 (Clam with sake broth)
• 凉瓜牛肉 (Beef stir fried bitter melon)
• 家乡炒米粉 (Hometown Style stir-fried vermicelli)

as a chinese-malaysian i rate this place a strong 9/10.

i stayed at FOUND hotel at Mason St. it was surprisingly nice and clean given the location.

mood: 5/5

wake: 9:00
sleep: 1:15

meals:

• breakfast: fried rice ground beef
• lunch: mad greens bowl
• dinner: Hon's Wun Tun House bitter melon beef, clams sake

grateful for: wei

til:

• biomarkers are like a label on your cancer cell that tells doctors what type of cancer you have
• her2 = human epidermal growth factor receptor 2
• its a protein that sits on the surface of cancer cells like little antennas
• normal cell = few antenna
• her2+ = many antennas 100x more
• her2-low = more than normal
• her2-zero = barely any
• IHC is immunoHistoChemistry
• stains the HEr2 proteins and count them
• counts the her2 gene copies (blueprint for making her2 proteins)